The story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era.
A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle ... Jennings, the author of a history of utopianism in America, writes with vividness and precision, and occasionally soars into a panoramic lyricism reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.
