One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Contributor(s): Serrano, Richard A. (Author) |
|||
ISBN: 0393334651 ISBN-13: 9780393334654 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 1998 Annotation: Based on hundreds of interviews, including an in-depth exclusive with McVeigh, Serrano takes readers on a wild ride crisscrossing America, as the bomb components are collected and a seemingly normal young man hardens his resolve to save the country he loves at the expense of the government he hates. Photos. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Biography & Autobiography - Political Science | Terrorism |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On April 19, 1995, terrorism struck the heartland of America: A cataclysmic explosion destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, took the lives of 168 people, and injured more than 500 others. It was not the work of a secret foreign cabal or a maniacal suicide bomber. Instead, death drove a rented truck, and behind the wheel was a young white American male with the barest of knowledge at his fingertips--a driver's license to rent a van and a recipe for mixing farm fertilizer and fuel oil to make a bomb. Timothy McVeigh--son of the working class, an army hero, the kid next door--was about to become the worst mass-murderer in American history. Richard Serrano, a Los Angeles Times reporter, arrived in Oklahoma City with the fire engines still racing to the blast site, and he has never left the story. On the basis of hundreds of interviews, including an in-depth exclusive with McVeigh himself, Serrano takes us along on that wild ride crisscrossing America, as the bomb components are collected and a seemingly normal young man hardens his resolve to save the country he loves at the expense of the government he hates. |
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review |
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First! |