TY - BOOK ID - 18362972 TI - Patriots, politics, and the Oklahoma City bombing PY - 2007 SN - 9780521872645 9780521694193 9780511619045 9780511290688 0511290683 051129008X 9780511290084 0511619049 0521872642 1107180791 9781107180796 1280917490 9781280917493 9786610917495 6610917493 0511288824 9780511288821 0511301979 9780511301971 0511289502 9780511289507 0521694191 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Militia movements KW - Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995. KW - Radicalism KW - Social problems KW - Polemology KW - Sociology of cultural policy KW - United States KW - Extremism, Political KW - Ideological extremism KW - Political extremism KW - Political science KW - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 KW - Bombings KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18362972 AB - This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. By examining the social construction of 'warfare' as a principal script or frame defining the movement-state dynamic, Stuart A. Wright explains how this highly charged confluence of a war narrative engendered a kind of symbiosis leading to the escalation of a mutual threat that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Wright offers a unique perspective on the events leading up to the bombing because he served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team for eighteen months and draws on primary data based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. The book contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and implemented the bombing. ER -