Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

by Jeffrey Toobin

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On April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end of the Waco siege, Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City and killed 168 people. Toobin's case is that the anti-government, gun-rights and white-supremacist world McVeigh came from was a forerunner of January 6.

Core ideas
  • The grievances: Waco, Ruby Ridge and the 1994 assault weapons ban enraged him, and The Turner Diaries and talk radio fed the ideology behind the attack.
  • No remorse: He saw the bombing as patriotic duty and never expressed regret, through trial, five years of appeals and his 2001 execution.
  • The unreleased record: The case is rebuilt from nearly a million previously unreleased items, including McVeigh's communications with his lawyers.
Published2023
Pages426
ISBN9781668013571
ReadMar 2024

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