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American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Tragedy at Oklahoma City Mass Market Paperback – January 8, 2002

by Lou Michel (Author), Dan Herbeck (Author)

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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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Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Harper (January 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061065188
ISBN-13: 978-0061065187
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,408,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2875 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Terrorism
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful

Compelling and important piece of literature

By A Customer on August 6, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

This book is one of the most compelling and riviting works I have ever read. It is complete, detailed, honest and it does justice to the bombing and to McVeigh. This book will explain to you exactly what happened, and most importantly, WHY it happened. It doesn't bog you down with conspiracy theories and bold statements designed to impress you. It is impressive in and within itself. I casually started reading the beginning of it just a week ago, not intending to dive into it just yet. But I couldn't put it down. The authors are so detailed and complete that it's sometimes difficult to get over all the cold facts and many names they report, but it paints a good picture. I would have preferred that they included even more of McVeigh's own thoughts and opinions in the text. They left out a few minor details that I was interested in like... what ever happened to his older sister? And to his high school girlfriend? They included enough to cause me to feel as if I knew him, however. You'll walk away better informed with a clearer mind and understanding of government, the military, and crime. It is scary, but it is worth it. Everyone ought to read this book.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

No grand conspiracy, just one committed fanatic and friends

By Joseph Brown on March 28, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

I just finished the book. Well written and thorough, Michel and Herbeck convinced me that one committed fanatic, and not even an
insane fanatic, Tim McVeigh, is responsible for the Murrah building bombing. He wasn't racist, wasn't a misanthrope, but his extreme hatred of the government (something LOTS of people share) drove him to an act of monstrous evil. As Michel and Herbeck note, this hatred of the government led McVeigh to kill innocents, exactly the kind of evil he laid at the doorstep of the government. Yet McVeigh never seems to have caught on to that.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

You Will Get Mad at Him All Over Again

By John G. Hilliard on April 23, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

I think that the focus of all Americans post 9 / 11 on the term "Terrorist" is centered on the Middle East and Afghanistan with good reason. What this book will do for you is to have you remember the horrible home grown incident in Oklahoma City and the type of internal terrorist that is probably still lurking around the fringe of society. This book covers a brief life history of little troubled Timmy. It then tries to tell us what brought him to the realization that to protect his right to own as many guns as he could and to make sure that the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents did not take place again, it was a good thing pack a truck full of explosives and kill almost 200 innocent men, women and children. The book also provides a step by step process on how he prepared the truck bomb and set it off, his capture and the trial.

What troubled me the most was the very cold, level arguments Timmy made to justify his actions, the same arguments that his group of ultra right wing government haters probably can continue to use to justify other terrorist acts. He also tries to wrap his attack on the government around some additional justification concerning the horrible treatment the American's inflicted on the Iraqi military during the Gulf War. Something like we bombed them too much. The authors go on to give us a view of Timmy that shows he really was just a petty two-bit criminal that loved guns. It all adds to the view into his head, that we were dealing with a troubled kid that could not rationally justify his actions.
The last thing that made me think with the book was how easy it was for this guy and his friends to pull this off. UBL sure went to a lot of trouble and cost given the same amount of damage probably could have been done with 10 trucks full of fertilizer and gas. Overall it is a very compelling book that you will not want to stop reading once you start. It is well written and has a good flow.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Terrorist, Patriot or both??

By David Nolte on January 31, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Immaculately researched (with cooperation from Tim McVeigh and his family)book about the infamous terrorist attack on American soil (somewhat overshadowed now by events on Sept 11)that will dispell many myths and clear up innacuracies.
For what it's worth I felt that McVeigh comes across in the book as quite a likeable fellow, hell if it weren't for that whole bombing thing, pretty much anyone would be glad to call him a friend.
Like many a serial killer, this mass murderer/terrorist isn't a slobbering at the mouth maniac, hiding in the shadows. He was an anti-government zealot who channelled his feelings of disgust and frustration into one act of severe violence. His acts could never be justified by any free-thinking person, however the book is interesting in that it doesn't set out to portray him as some kind of maniac. Just presents the facts in a fascinating and compelling fashion.
Highly recommended.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

A very self serving book.

By A Loyal American on November 21, 2008

Format: Mass Market Paperback

I read this book shortly after it was released. It was written after the authors spent several days interviewing Tim McVeigh and was released shortly before his death sentence was carried out. Clearly many of the statements in this book are an attempt by McVeigh to justify his actions, including the mistakes he made that ultimately lead to his arrest and conviction. The people of Oklahoma were very upset by the publication of this book and many of the investigators, out of respect for the families who lost loved ones in the bombing, refused to submit to interviews or make any comments to the authors.

I have also read other books about the Oklahoma City bombing written by individuals who had a role in the investigation and found some of these books to be an attempt by some to claim personal credit for the actions of literally hundreds of investigators who worked around-the-clock in order to make sure that the case was thoroughly investigated. Unfortunately, like the Kennedy assassination of John F. Kennedy, people will continue to claim that there was some type of government conspiracy or cover-up and millions of dollars will be spent on unnecessary investigations of the investigation. I personally do not believe that there are any unknown facts or unidentified co-conspirators. Did investigators make any mistakes? I am sure that they did. Anytime you have an investigation of this magnitude, people will make mistakes.

After skipping over many of McVeigh's self serving comments, I was very impressed with the investigative results obtained by the members of the task force.Read more ›

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There but for fortune, go you or I

Best organized book on the fortune and misfortune insights and lives of Timothy McVeigh. How and where he met his now infamous friends. How plans were formed. Read more

Published on February 17, 2012 by Bernie

Fascinating

An extremely chilling, yet fascinating, look into the mind of an ordinary American turned domestic terrorist. Once I started reading I couldn't put it down. Read more

Published on December 15, 2009 by Amazon Customer

Plausible but not convincing

The two authors, reporters for the Buffalo News, did an admirable job at fillingin the background of McVeigh but fail to address two central issues. Read more

Published on January 30, 2009 by Liberty Blacksmith

Powerful and intense is an understatement!

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. Read more

Published on May 12, 2007 by Sylviastel

More government propaganda

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... Read more

Published on September 6, 2003 by Karen M Yax

Spoiled by sympathy

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... Read more

Published on August 26, 2003 by Amazon Customer

Fascinating and scary

Books about terrorists and sociopaths always seem to inspire reviewers to use words like "chilling. Read more

Published on July 8, 2003 by Sarah

You'll agree with his views, but not his actions.

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. Read more

Published on May 28, 2003 by Ken Kibby

Journalistic tour de force

The road from Ruby Ridge to Oklahoma City is littered with the bodies of innocents. A few were gunned down by federal agents, but the vast majority were murdered by anti-government... Read more

Published on November 25, 2002 by J. Gillespie