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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.

Government, Resistance to --- Militia movements --- Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995. --- Radicalism --- Social problems --- Polemology --- Sociology of cultural policy --- United States --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Murrah Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995 --- Bombings --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- United States of America