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    The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy
    The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy
    The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy

    Written by Jack Rosewood and Dwayne Walker

    Narrated by Gaius M. Thynne

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    About this audiobook

    During fifty one days in early 1993 one of the most tragic events in American crime history unfolded on the plains outside Waco, Texas. An obscure and heavily armed religious sect called the Branch Davidians was barricaded inside their commune and outside were hundreds of law enforcement angry because the former had killed four ATF agents in a botched raid. Open the pages of this book and go on an engaging and captivating ride to examine one of the most important true crime stories in recent decades. Read the shocking true story of how a man the government considered a psychopath, but whose followers believed to be a prophet, led a breakaway sect of the Seventh Day Adventist Church into infamy.





    You will follow the meteoric rise of the Branch Davidians’ charismatic leader, David Koresh, as he went from an awkward kid in remedial classes to one of the most infamous cult leaders in world history. But the story of the Waco Siege begins long before the events of 1993. At the core of the conflict between the Branch Davidians and the United States government were ideas and interpretations of religious freedom and gun ownership, which as will be revealed in the pages of this book, a considerable philosophical gulf existed between the two sides. David Koresh and the Branch Davidians carried on a long tradition in American and Texas history of religious dissent, but in 1993 that dissent turned tragically violent.





    You will find that beyond the standard media portrayals of the Waco Siege was an event comprised of complex human characters on both sides of the firing line and that perhaps the most tragic aspect of the event was that the extreme bloodshed could have been avoided.





    The pages of this book will make you angry, sad, and bewildered; but no matter the emotions evoke, you will be truly moved by the events of the Waco Siege.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateNov 5, 2016
    ISBN9781518937729
    The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy

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    • 2/5
      Narration sounds computer generated. As others have mentioned, there are several repeatedly mispronounced words.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      The narrator is terrible. When you have a subject as fascinating as WACO it is incredibly hard to mess things up. This narrator managed to do so! his sentence structure is barely literate and his voice is painfully monotone.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      The information is good and it’s a very succinct retelling of the events in Waco. However, the audiobook sounds like it was computer generated. Several words are mispronounced and the cadence is robotic with long pauses after each comma.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This is an informative and interesting book.

      The audio performance, however, is not great. “Expecially” is not a word, though it is used regularly, and moniker is not pronounced “monkey-er.” Would assume an editor would have caught this?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Well this, sort of, explains why Conservatives are referred to as: Right Wing Nut Jobs.

      Just takes one bad apple (Karesh) to spoil the whole bunch.
    • 2/5
      I can’t make heads or tails of this book. It has plenty of information that was new to me, but it also included a lot that was unnecessary and kind if incendiary. The whole thing came from a place of personal view and opinion, but it also condemned tellings that did the same exact thing. Weirdest parts for me were the moments the author tried to excuse Koresh’s penchant for pedophelia just to recognize that sexual assault is bad at the end of the book, but only when talking about someone else. It was hard to tell what the author was getting at because most of it felt like he was pushing far right wing rhetoric.

      Then there was the narrator. He did an okay job, but could have at least learned how to say Palestine correctly? There’s more than one way to pronounce specific words, and in the case of the Texas town, it’s Palest-een. And then he pronounced David Thibodeau’s name two different ways. Couldn’t even say “Koresh” the same way every time. It was honestly annoying.

      Technically, I just wanted a book about the Waco Siege. So I got exactly what I was looking for. I just wish there were more options than this.
    • 2/5
      The contents of the book itself seem to be good, but due to the awful narrator I had to stop at chapter 3. When I heard “exspecially” multiple times, I was out. The narrator is also extremely monotone. Skip this one or read the hard copy if toure interested.