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Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing R I C H A R D A ISBN0-393-02743-0 USA $26.95 CAN. $37.99 . R I C H A R D A S E R R A N O One of Ours Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing n April 19, 1995, terrorism struck the heartland of America: a cataclysmic explosion destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, took the lives of 168 people, and injuredmore than 500others.It wasnotthe workof a secret foreigncabal or amaniacal . 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 drivers license to rent a van and a prescription for mixing farm fertilizer and fuel oil. Timothy McVeigh son of the working class, army hero, the kid next door was about to become the worst mass-murderer in American history. Richard Serrano, a Los AngelesTimes reporter, arrived in Oklahoma City with the fire engines still racing to the blast site, and he never left the story.On the basis of hun ¬ dreds of interviews, including an in-depth exclusive with McVeigh himself, Serrano takesus alongonthat wildridecrisscrossing America, as the bomb components are col ¬ lected and a seemingly normal young man (c ntin fi»p) » - - - ISBN 0 393 02743 0 wmm 90000 > ? : 9 "780393 027433 (continued from front flap) hardens his resolve to save the country he loves at the expense of the government he hates. Abandoned by his mother as a child, betrayed by the army, enraged at the gov ¬ ernments tactics at Waco, McVeigh sought to avenge what the far right sees as the undoing of America; while the militias and fanaticsranted,McVeighdecidedtoact.And althoughhe believedhe was startingarevo ¬ lution, what McVeigh did was galvanize a nationagainst the very hatredhe espoused. RICHARD SERRANO is a Los Ange ¬ les Times staff writer covering the Justice Department;he has workedon two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting projects. He lives intheWashington,D.C.,area. JACKETDESIGNBYDEBRAMORTONHOYT JACKETPHOTOGRAPHSBYAP WIDEWORLDPHOTOS PRINTED UNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA « One of Ours ONE OF OURS Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing . Richard A Serrano W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEWYork(cid:127)London Copyright©1998byRichardA.Serrano Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesof America FirstEdition Forinformationaboutpermissiontoreproduceselectionsfrom thisbook,writetoPermissions,W.W.Norton&Company,Inc., 500FifthAvenue,NewYork, NY10110. Thetextof thisbookiscomposedinTrumpMediaeval withthedisplaysetinBertholdCity CompositionbyJoAnnSchambier ManufacturingbyQuebecorPrinting,FairfieldInc. BookdesignbyCharlotteStaub - - Libraryof CongressCatalogingin PublicationData Serrano,RichardA. Oneof ours:TimothyMcVeighandtheOklahomaCity bombing/RichardA.Serrano, p. cm. - - - ISBN0393027430 1.McVeigh,Timothy. 2.Terrorists UnitedStates Biography. 3.Right-wingextremists UnitedStates Biography. 4.OklahomaCityFederalBuildingBombing, OklahomaCity,Okla.,1995. I.Title. HV6432.S47 1998 976.6'38053'092 dc21 [B] 98-9479 CIP W.W.Norton&.Company,Inc.,500FifthAvenue,NewYork, NY10110 http://www.wwnorton.com W.W.Norton&CompanyLtd.,10CopticStreet,London WC1A1PU 1234567890
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