In 1993, the FBI raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco resulting in the death of 76 cult members. Two years later, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 people and wounded more than 500 when they bombed Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building out of vengeance and in protest of the U.S. government. McVeigh expressed no remorse and cited the Declaration of Independence: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” Drawing on previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and document communication between McVeigh and his lawyers, Jeffrey Toobin looks to the intricate web of the past and its reverberations into contemporary society to find the roots of what he argues is a rise in homegrown domestic terrorism.