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The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.

Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.

Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. He cited the Declaration of Independence from memory: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” He had obsessively followed the siege of Waco and seethed at the imposition of President Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban. A self-proclaimed white separatist, he abhorred immigration and wanted women to return to traditional roles. As he watched the industrial decline of his native Buffalo, McVeigh longed for when America was great.

New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that doesn’t mean his army wasn’t there. With news-breaking reportage, Toobin details how McVeigh’s principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh and his lawyers, as well as interviews with such key figures as Bill Clinton, Homegrown reveals how the story of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing is not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, but a warning for our future.
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"Toobin provides the most authoritative and compelling history of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to date. But 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. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol....His account of the bombing serves as a warning sign as much as it does a history of that legacy."
— The Associated Press

“Homegrown repeatedly draws a 'direct line'.. between the Oklahoma City bombing and the insurrection on Jan. 6... Intriguing."
— The New York Times

“Probing."
— The New Yorker

"The definitive book on McVeigh’s continuing legacy. This book serves as a wake-up call to the ongoing extremist threat...Though McVeigh was executed in 2001, Homegrown shows that his story is very much a story for today....Toobin carefully maps the road that leads from McVeigh to MAGA, January 6, and the right-wing extremism and violence we see today."
— The Texas Observer

"Extraordinary....A terrific reporter with legal expertise and a knack for vivid storytelling....Much of Homegrown reads like a Jack Kerouac novel…"
—The Chicago Sun-Times

"Brilliantly researched and argued....Toobin’s journalistic assessment of McVeigh and his paranoid style of politics generates an inescapable conclusion: The problem is getting worse....The bad news from Toobin’s remarkable work is that as long as the right wing fails to get its way, violence and threats against democracy and the people it is intended to represent will continue at the hand of Timothy McVeigh’s ideological heirs."
—Washington Monthly

"The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection."
— Next Big Idea Club

"In this gripping and harrowing work of history, Toobin has rendered a searing portrait of Timothy McVeigh. Toobin also illuminates the way extremism continues to infect our present. If you want to understand the threats to our democracy today, read this powerful book."
—David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager

“With groundbreaking reporting and sober analysis, Toobin offers an illuminating exploration of the unfolding story of right-wing extremism in the United States. The threat remains with us; useful and engaging, Toobin's account should brace us for the ongoing struggle against the worst of us.”
— Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of And There Was Light

"Anyone trying to understand the violent extremism that led to the assault on America's Capitol on January 6th, and anyone who thinks that day marked the end of the story, must read Homegrown. Toobin shows that today's domestic terrorists are neither new, nor an isolated phenomenon. McVeigh's story is a nonfiction thriller, both eye-opening, and an urgently needed warning.
— Jane Mayer, bestselling author of Dark Money

"It’s tempting to believe that the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol took the Far Right to a deadly new level of violent fanaticism. Toobin’s fast-paced, expertly crafted book reminds us that it was all there a quarter of a century earlier, in a horrific mass murder that too many of us dismissed as the work of an unhinged loner.”
— Adam Hochschild, author of eleven books, including American Midnight

"Toobin’s finest work. The writing is propulsive, driven by huge moment-to-moment suspense. As always, Toobin’s research is impeccable. Most important, Toobin draws a straight line from McVeigh, whose crime has been understood sometimes as an isolated act of lunatic savagery, to the right-wing extremists who imperil us today."
— Scott Turow, #1 New York Times author ofPresumed Innocent and Suspect

"A riveting account of the man behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the legacy of his actions, which reverberate today....an exhaustive but fascinating chronicle....Toobin delivers an equally gripping account of the prosecution, defense, trial, media coverage, and five years of appeals before his execution....An authoritative, disheartening, depressingly relevant page-turner."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An eye-opening study of Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995....a persuasive case that the bombing was motivated by beliefs that have come to dominate right-wing politics. It’s a tragic and edifying account of the road to domestic terrorism."
— Publishers Weekly

"McVeigh was radicalized by many of the same ideas that radicalize extremists today....Toobin gathered insider facts from a trove of documents donated by the defense lawyers to weave together this hard-hitting narrative. Given the continued threats of violence and other actions against officials and democracy itself, Homegrown is a must read."
— Booklist

About the Author

Jeffrey Toobin is the New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress, The Oath, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and Opening Arguments. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

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Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, senior legal analyst at CNN, and the bestselling author of The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, The Nine, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, The Run of His Life and Opening Arguments. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

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David J George
5.0 out of 5 stars Oklahoma City Bombing: Extremism Then and Now
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2023
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"Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism" is an in depth historical case study of the thinking of a "typical" extremist. It is based on conventional information resources (news, court records, etc.), plus all the information collected by McVeigh's formidable legal team (personal notes, communications, notes on interviews with numerous individuals, recordings, and much more). This latter material, which usually remains confidential, recently became accessible when it was donated to a University's holdings and made publicly available. The totality of the material available and an experienced author resulted in an excellent fact-based analysis of the extremist as well as the event. Even readers who have read widely on this topic should read this book.

We see clearly how Timothy McVeigh came about (so to speak), and how a couple of individuals could conceive and execute a plan for so much carnage (worst terrorist attack ever till 9/11), and also how anti-government extremism was....... and continues to this day.

This is a well written book.
Authoritative.
Very highly recommended.
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Donald A. Coppock
4.0 out of 5 stars great read
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023
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A riveting account of Timothy Mcveigh, the Oklahoma City bombing, and how his act of terror resonates in today's America.
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Gabriel Ingram
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023
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I enjoyed reading this book because I was stationed overseas when this tragic event took place. I remember watching it on the news & seeing Timothy McVeigh. He had a stone cold I don’t care look written all over his face & to me he didn’t value human life. He killed those 168 people without remorse. His points of view then is like they’re on steroids now with some people following & going down his same path of destruction. This book was very informative & I highly recommend reading this book.
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Rita Meter Maid
5.0 out of 5 stars Waco to January 6 explained
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023
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Toobin is an excellent writer, has tackled HRC, the SCOTUS, Patty Hearst and OJ Simpson in the past and here he explains how Timothy McVeigh was furious at the outcome of the standoff in Waco in 1993 in which the FBI finally set fire to the compound and many people including small children died. McVeigh was seeking revenge for that event, and took some years to arrive at the solution which was to bomb a Federal Building in OK in which 168 innocent people including children died and hundreds were injured.

These actions of his and others were the first indicators of what we saw on January 6, the same mentality, kill or harm anyone associated with the Federal government, and we also learn it is the US military which turn out people who become right wing fanatics.
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Jennifer Parsley
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must read for conspiracy theorists.
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
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As a survivor of 4/19, I have read every single book about it, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. I attended McVeigh's and Nichols's trials and witnessed McVeigh's execution. This book is an absolute read for the conspiracy theorists who believe the government was involved. It describes McVeigh's mindset, his very tumultuous relationship with his attorney (Stephen Jones), his absolute admission and how what he did has influenced The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, KKK, etc.in their actions on January 6. It also shows Trump's relationship to these groups. Very well written and concise.
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Bridgelady
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting!
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023
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This is a good explanation of how the right-wingers start getting their beliefs. Seems they are able to keep their plans a secret and even their friends that know about it are willing to aid and abet. This was surprising that noone who suspected some activity would not report it.
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5teve
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and frightening
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024
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I had heard about this book some time ago but had not purchased it until recently. Its not the kind of book you can love but it is the kind everyone should read.

"In the nearly thirty years since the Oklahoma City bombing, the country took an extraordinary journeyed from nearly universal horror at the action of a right-wing extremist to wide embrace of a former president (also possibly future president) who reflected the bomber's values."

I would encourage anyone to read this book
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A. Warren
5.0 out of 5 stars A Page Turner
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2023
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WOW!! I Remember the McVeigh bombing but this recounting of the details, including conversations between McVeigh's attorney and him, brought back vividly the horror of the act and the motivations leading up to it. This book reads like a novel and I could hardly put it down. Toobin's thesis is that the increase in right wing extremism today was a legacy of McVeigh's and his actions. Whether this is true or not, it is clear that today's right wing violence stems from the same anti government animus that prompted McVeigh's actions. A well written documented work that leaves one anxious about the future. A must read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book.
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2023
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The analogy behind the reasoning in the mind of the Oklahoma City bomber with the Capitol rioters nearly thirty years later is quite frightening.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A detailed page-turner about the Oklahoma bombing
Reviewed in Germany on July 1, 2023
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On April 19,1995, Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb next to the Oklahoma City Federal building killing 168 people including many children from the day care center in the building. McVeigh's lawyer recently provided all of his files from the case including all of the files the FBI provided to the defense. The lawyer's files also included the extensive discussions between McVeigh and his legal team about his background and his motivations.

Jeffrey Toobin has utilized all of these files to create a detailed page-turner about the case. The first half of the book details McVeigh's background and his motivations for the bombing. He had been heavily influenced by the book The Turner Diaries and took his idea for the truck bomb directly from this book. Also, he was a heavy consumer of Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing radio which fed his anger at the actions of the Federal Government in Waco. The second half of the book discusses the FBI investigation and the strategies of the legal teams involved.

The book is very unsettling because it is clear that there are many other potential McVeigh's in America at the moment. Toobin demonstrates this with his lists of subsequent right-wing extremists actions since 1995 that parallel the McVeigh case in some way. Toobin also shows the parallels to the people who assaulted the US Capitol on January 6th.
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Alun d
5.0 out of 5 stars probably will be the definitive account of Timothy McVeigh and what he did
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2023
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I am from the UK.

I am a unashamedly left-wing liberal. Just to tell you that to give you the context for what I say.

This is the second book I have read about Timothy McVeigh. It will probably be the definitive account of his story because of the authors access to all of the legal papers. I found it gave me a very good, balance, detailed story of Timothy McVeigh.

It explained why he did what he did, and puts him in the context of his culture and society.

As a left-wing liberal, who takes an interest in far right politics, and has recently read seven books on Donald Trump, I totally understand the authors attempt to identify Timothy McVeigh as part of an ongoing development of right-wing extremism in American politics. I think on the whole he makes his case, but I would prefer a little less continuous references and linkage to what happened on the 6th of January 2021 one.

For me, the argument and evidence is clear – I don’t know why he needed to keep referring to it.

Then again, some of the readers of this book may not be as au fait with American right-wing extremism as I am.

So on balance, it deserves a five. It should be read by anybody who wants to understand The very very serious problems American culture has.

How I hope this country does not go the same way! I know there are right-wing conservatives in this country, who want the same culture wars – to quotethe vice chairman of the Tory party. “if they don’t like the liberal multicultural society we have, they can always leave!
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