I’ve started watching a mimi series on paramount about the aftermath of waco with flashbacks, the first episode was great, but it is a dramatization of everything after all. So with that in mind I wanted to read a very in depth book about the events/participants; David, the FBI, the Davidians, the siege, any interviews of members, etc.

I understand there is a lot of boojs on the topics, but it there one that outshines the rest?

  • ciaradx@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m currently reading Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians & A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn - definitely recommend it. He has done books on Jonestown and Manson too.

  • wafflesandcanesyrup@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wish more people would read Aberration in the Heartland of the Real though it is a slog (started out as a dissertation) in some bits. It’s about McVeigh, not Waco, though of course it talks about Waco and the siege and its consequences and the weird politics around it especially with secrete police/military/intelligence forces etc. It’s a weird book full of blow your mind stuff if you will slog through it and stick with it though she really could have used a better editor and publisher. It leaves all sorts of dangling threads that you could spend your life pulling.

    Cook’s Waco Rising is more straight forward and presents the more mainstream narrative but I’d take them in tandem. It gives the history of Koresh and the FBI raid.

    Weiner’s Enemies: History of the FBI puts it all in context of similar activities at the time.