Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters
- ISBN-10
- 0061986453
- ISBN-13
- 9780061986451
- Series
- Oklahoma City
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-09
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Authors
- Andrew Gumbel, Roger G. Charles
Description
Veteran journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles give the fullest account yet of the Oklahoma City bombing plot and investigation, with unprecedented access to government documents, voluminous correspondence with Timothy McVeigh's partner, Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews. In Oklahoma City, Gumbel and Charles document what went wrong: in particular, the dysfunction within law enforcement agencies that squandered opportunities to prevent the bombing, as well as the unanswered question of who inspired the plot—and who else might have been involved. To this day, the FBI heralds the Oklahoma City investigation as one of its great triumphs. In reality, though, its handling of the bombing foreshadowed many of the problems that made the country vulnerable to attack on 9/11. Oklahoma City gives the most complete, honest story of both the plot and the investigation, drawing a vivid portrait of the unfailingly compelling—driven, eccentric, fractious, funny, and wildly paranoid—characters involved.
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- 2012-04-24
- 464 pages
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- 2012-04-24
- 448 pages
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