Up in Arms
How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2019
Summary
“IT’S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch.”
These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy’s besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution. Across the country, a certain type of citizen snapped to attention: This was the flashpoint they’d been waiting for, a chance to help a fellow American stand up to a tyrannical and corrupt federal government.
Up in Arms
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781946885951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1946885959 |
| Author: | John Temple |
| Publisher: | BenBella Books |
| Imprint: | BenBella Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 561g |
| Dimensions: | 159mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
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”“[An] intelligent, impeccably researched deep dive into two clashes between the federal government and right-wing antigovernment protesters … Temple’s even-handed and painstaking reportage yields a clear and unbiased portrait of this subsection of the movement.””
—Publishers Weekly
”“Give[s] the reader the information needed to decide whether he or she belongs on Team Bundy or Team Fed—or neither.””
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
”“Act One of the Bundy Burlesque is neatly chronicled by John Temple in another new book, Up in Arms.””
—KNPR/Desert Companion
”“If you want to understand the extremist militia groups popping up around the country lately, you need to start with Nevada’s notorious Bundy clan. Temple shines a light on the people as well as the religious, political and economic factors that gave rise to this dangerous movement.””
—The Revelator
”“A tale of the modern American frontier, told by one of our great independent journalists.””
—Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
”“With Up in Arms, John Temple delivers another fierce and searching portrait of an American subculture. His last book, American Pain, opened up the vault on painkiller pill mills, delivering a prescient harbinger of the opioid crisis. Now, his new and piercing look at the Bundy clan and the wider Patriot militia culture is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the continuing schism between rural and urban America.””
—Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
”“John Temple’s depth of reporting is nothing short of remarkable. Reading Up in Arms, I was truly immersed, as if I was witnessing the bizarre series of events unfolding in real time. Most Americans only experienced a fraction of the saga through mass media’s parachute journalism. Temple’s in-depth approach propels you into the unbelievable story with extraordinary details, characters, history, and riveting scenes.””
—Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Academy Award–nominated documentary filmmaker of Heroin(e)
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John Temple
John Temple is an investigative journalist and the author of American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, which was named a New York Post “Favorite Book of 2015” and a 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for Fact Crime. Temple wrote two previous nonfiction books: The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office. The American Society of Legal Writers awarded The Last Lawyer the 2010 Scribes Book Award. Temple is a tenured journalism professor at West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media. Before academia, Temple worked as a newspaper reporter in Pittsburgh, North Carolina and Florida.
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