American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing

"...AMERICAN TERRORIST denies readers the luxury of either dismissing its form or distancing themselves from its content. Authors Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck...had unprecedented access to McVeigh, and have taken care to ground his life story in something more than a horrifying explosion....They have reconstructed not simply the sensational narrative of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the manhunt and the legal proceedings that followed in its wake, but also the quieter, messier story of McVeigh's unremarkably troubled life.It's that story that makes for such unsettling reading. The Timothy McVeigh who emerges across the pages of AMERICAN TERRORIST is frightening not because he is so freakish and maniacal but because he is so familiar and ordinary.Dan Herbeck is the author of 'American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing' with ISBN 9780756760496 and ISBN 0756760496.