1990, ISBN: 0670815616

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780670815616], [PU: NY etc~. 1990. Viking Press/ Penguin Group], Social Science|Criminology, Social Science|General, Jacket, black & grey 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dust… More...

[EAN: 9780670815616], [PU: NY etc~. 1990. Viking Press/ Penguin Group], Social Science|Criminology, Social Science|General, Jacket, black & grey 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). x+274p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. cast of characters. source notes. index. biography. american history. politics. conspiracy theory. true crime. ~Gordon Kahl was a hard~working farmer, a war hero, a religious patriot who had obeyed and respectecl the government for most of his life. He was also a leading member of the ultra~rightwing Posse Comitatus and a fierce tax protestor. Imprisoned once for IRS evasion, he vowed never to go back to jail, When Kahl broke probation, federal marshals came to arrest him again, and there was a shootout. Kahl and his son killed two marshals and Kahl became a fugitive from justice, finding refuge in the homes of svmpathizers throughout the Midwest. The violence in Medina, North Dakota, wounded an entire community. Lifelong bonds were broken over conflicting sympathies about Kahl; families were ruptured. Some thought Kahl was a cold~blooded murderer, a terrorist taking the law into his own hands. Others thought he had given those representing a gluttonous, interfering government precisely what they deserved. Kahl had been a charismatic spokesman, raging against the IRS, the federal courts, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Eastem banking interests that conspired, he said, to take from him and his fellow believers their farms, their land, their way of life. The trial of Kahl's wife and son became a battle for the soul of the heartland, as the chief of counterinsurgence for the Posse Comitatus threatened to storm the courtroom and "finish the job Kahl started. " James Corcoran grew up in North Dakota not far from Gordon Kahl's farm, and covered the tragedy for the Fargo Forum. Torn between his loyalties to farmers no longer able to survive and his despair and outrage at the violence that some have turned to, he is extraordinarily eloquent about a crisis that has ruined millions of lives and altered the American landscape.<

1990, ISBN: 9780670815616

Viking Adult, 1990-05-25. Hardcover. Used:Good., Viking Adult, 1990-05-25, 0