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...still reading this know is about three imaginary psychopaths involved in everything from the Bay of Pigs to the assassination of John F. Kennedy--is a hard book to follow. Having gone way over the top in his first portrait of recent U.S. history as gutter journalism and a paranoid drug trip, Ellroy can't replicate the first-time shock effects of Tabloid and must settle instead for offering more of the same. He does so brilliantly, but the thrills seem familiar...
...bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, right-wing doomsayers saw him as a leading horseman of the apocalypse. After the 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge and the 1993 siege at Waco, suspicion of federal agencies and gun-control initiatives reached paranoid levels. Within days of the bombing, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Federal Government had caused the explosions so that it could justify new antiterrorist legislation. The number of active militia groups quadrupled in the year after Oklahoma City. A TIME cover story on the militia movement just after the bombing...
...which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still runs the Militia of Montana. "If they kill McVeigh, they'll be destroying more evidence that points to the government," he says. But fewer Americans are listening...
...Enemies of the State For a moment, the silence of mourning prevailed over the combative, growingly paranoid rhetoric of the day. But can tragedy transform the apocalyptic tendencies of American political discourse? May 8, 1995 Read the Cover Story...
...travel abroad. So he agreed to meet the CIA officer and describe what he had seen and heard on his trip. "I do this because I and the people at my company are loyal Americans," the executive says. But because his potential business partners are prickly and often paranoid, he is worried about the risks to his business--and his safety--on future trips...