RaveThe New RepublicCompact, yet powerful ... As Shade persuasively demonstrates, this hopeful energy masked not only the failures of global capitalism...but also the political vacuity and cultural rot of the period ... Wide-ranging and tremendously compelling.
Kevin Cook
PositiveThe New Republic... engrossing and original ... Waco Rising poses vital and urgent questions about state power and the role of violence and warmaking in the contemporary United States ... meticulously catalogs the misdeeds and missteps that precipitated the carnage ... While Waco Rising draws a clear link between the Mount Carmel siege and the right-wing movements of today, it doesn’t explore, in any meaningful depth, how whiteness has shaped the right’s responses to government “overreach.”