Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing

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ID19914540
AuthorsStuart A Wright (0000-0003-2058-6195, Lamar University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-06-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePatriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511619045
OpenAlexW4231073837
Open LibraryOL34475805M
ISBN9780511619045
LanguageEN
Citations received27

This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. By examining the social construction of 'warfare' as a principal script or frame defining the movement-state dynamic, Stuart A. Wright explains how this highly charged confluence of a war narrative engendered a kind of symbiosis leading to the escalation of a mutual threat that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Wright offers a unique perspective on the events leading up to the bombing because he served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team for eighteen months and draws on primary data based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. The book contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and implemented the bombing

Archaeology · Art history · Framing (construction) · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Wright · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Race, History, and American Society · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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