![]() ![]() Peyton Manning recalls trash-talk exchange with Texans star J.J.Kemp's ridley sea turtle lays nest of 80 eggs in Surfside Beach.Parks in Houston that everyone should visit at least once.Video of diamondback rattlesnake swimming on Texas lake terrifies and intrigues Internet.Astronomers witness star eat its own planet.“Homegrown” benefits from fresh interviews from figures such as former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversaw the prosecution of McVeigh and Nichols. The book revisits a story Toobin first chronicled in 1997 as he covered the trials of McVeigh and Nichols for The New Yorker magazine. ![]() In “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism,” legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin provides the most authoritative and compelling history of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to date.īut what makes it such a gripping read is how Toobin puts the attack in context of an extremist, anti-government movement that has accelerated in the Internet age and eventually led to the Jan. Instead, McVeigh and coconspirator Terry Nichols connected with extremist voices through much simpler means such as gun shows, right-wing publications and radio programs. Murrah Building that killed 168 people occurred long before 4chan, Twitter or Facebook. ![]()
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