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“This book by Jayne Docherty was written a few years afterwards. It’s got quite a lot of sociological jargon in it, but it’s absolutely fascinating. One of the reasons Waco is such an interesting case study is that we have transcripts of the many, many hours of conversations between the FBI and the religious community, the Branch Davidians, in the compound. We see these how negotiations went on, and on and on, and just never went anywhere. She does a great job of analyzing why. The FBI negotiators were highly trained, they’d read books and done training courses and had experience of negotiation, but they just weren’t able to make it work.” Read more...
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Ian Leslie, Journalist
