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American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Tragedy at Oklahoma City | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 803065
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0061065188
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.638053092
EAN: 9780061065187
ASIN: 0061065188
Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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Book Description
Oklahoma City, 9:02a.m., April 19, 1995.A virulent antigovenment radical. A homemade truck bomb. 168 people dead -- including 19 children. More than 500 people injured. Now comes the whole shocking story of a day that lives in infamy --a story every american muct read.
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 Powerful and intense is an understatement! May 12, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's been a while since I read this book but I can tell you that it hit me in the gut. It was a book about Timothy McVeigh, one of America's dispicable criminals. I think the section in the book that struck me most was when the Feds went to his father's house. His father, a proud American, and former military man himself was shocked by the Feds treating him at first as if he was involved with his son's actions. You got the impression that the Feds felt sorry for this man who fathered Timothy and why wouldn't you be? As the Feds got to know the father, their guards went down because they realized that father and son were completely different in their views. A father is a proud American and the son is completely not. You read about how the divorce and his views of his mother helped shape his thinking. His relationship with his sisters and others also gave us insight to this lonely human being who obviously was distraught, mistrustful, and dangerous to his country after serving his country in 1991 Desert Storm. You begin to ask so many questions about why and how this disaster of the bomb going off at the Murrah building in Oklahoma City could have happened. The book answers or provides to clues to understanding him but it doesn't justify his actions. No, he was guilty of a horrendous crime which proved no purpose. He was ready to get arrested, sentenced, and executed. He showed no remorse to the victims, living and deceased, from his actions. Not a tear or a I'm sorry. Nothing, here was a great American soldier who became an American terrorist long before the events of September 11, 2001 crept in to our histories. Lana Padilla, Terry Nichols' former wife, wrote that it would have been easier to accept a foreigner and not a domestic terrorist. She is right! We could have taken it if it was a complete foreigner and stranger to our country! I remember thinking people were saying Middle Eastern terrorists but how wrong, how so wrong.
 More government propaganda September 7, 2003
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
We can add this book to the numerous articles done by CNN,ABC and NBC and the many other government mouthpieces that have given us plenty of sensationalism and "flexible facts" and biased hype, but very little truth, hard core FACTS and the undeniable evidence that points to a larger conspiracy and a huge government cover up. Just like the networks, the authors of the book put forth only what the government wants the masses to see. You don't get the facts when you read this book, people you get fantasy/fiction. If you want FACTS I suggest you visit the Official Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation team's website. Oklahoma State representative Charles Key has done a wonderful job investigating the bombing and his Final Report provides us with the evidence that didn't make it to trial-the numerous eyewitnesses who were not called to testify despite the important events they witnessed on April 19,1995. McVeigh was NOT the lone bomber and anyone who thinks so just does NOT have the facts at hand. GET THEM. Put this work of fiction down and honor the victims of the OKC bombing by seeking the TRUTH.
 Spoiled by sympathy August 27, 2003
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
An otherwise fine account of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City is spoiled by being overly sympathetic & uncritical in its portrayal of Tim McVeigh. The book includes very good material about McVeigh, boosted by interviews with him ... & that's also its weakness. Perhaps the interviews drew the authors in a little too much to McVeigh. They didn't cross the line by much, but they did cross it. He is, after all, a mass murderer, even if he is also likeable. The portrayal of McVeigh's father is a particular strength of the book.
 Fascinating and scary July 9, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Books about terrorists and sociopaths always seem to inspire reviewers to use words like "chilling." It may be a cliche, but this massive, exhaustively researched biography of Timothy McVeigh is just that -- chilling. You will be left with a good understanding of how McVeigh did it, and why he says he did it. I would have liked more psychological insights into McVeigh's state of mind, however. How does an intelligent kid from a pretty ordinary blue-collar family go from somewht alienated teenager (nothing atypical there) to decorated soldier to gun nut to obsessed drifter to mass murderer? At one point the book quotes McVeigh's court-appointed psychiatrist who says it's "unfortunate" that McVeigh didn't get some "counseling." Isn't that the understatement of the century!
You'll agree with his views, but not his actions. May 29, 2003
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I read this book, and it is an excellent study of McVeigh. However, let me point out that I read the hardcover version, which was published before Tim's execution. Still, Tim had many ups and downs of his life. I'm sure that many people, myself included, have some sort of disrespect for the government, and the authors present Tim's case remarkably presented. But instead of using letters to congressmen urging them to change the system, McVeigh decided to take human life to make his case. This shows how extreme hatred of the government can become if one's twisted mind believes that killing is the only way to be heard. Second, I kind of sympathize with some periods of McVeigh's life that I've pretty much led myself, such as isolation from the social world (except for, in McVeigh's case, gun enthisiasts). This is a must read and an alert that any crazy American can fight for rights by selfishly ending promising lives.
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