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""In this vivid, frightening, and fascinating account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Chris Jennings reveals how the long history of apocalyptic faith and end-of-times theology have fueled wild conspiracy theories in America. If you want to understand our troubled and fraught times, you need to grapple with the forces that led to Ruby Ridge. This book blew me away and opened my eyes.""--Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker and Elon Musk ""Vivid, absorbing, and elegantly narrated, End of Days explores American fundamentalist religion, with its apocalyptic visions of carnage, through the remarkable story of the Weaver family. The conspiracy theories of today, as Jennings makes clear, are rooted in the demon-haunted world of yesterday's zealots.""--Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers and Money, Lies, and God ""This is a landmark investigative narrative on the level of Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, braiding intricate human drama into a gripping saga of how a fervent few can shake the world with devastating consequences. Chris Jennings--writing beautifully and hauntingly--has given us the definitive explanation of how Ruby Ridge became the ignition point of the American political crackup.""--Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Wildland and The Haves and Have-Yachts ""What happened at Ruby Ridge more than three decades ago was a travesty. But Chris Jennings maps the historical roots of this cascade of stupidities with a clear-minded intelligence and stupendous reporting. America is awash in yet another era of apocalyptic, messianic, and conspiratorial passions--which makes End of Days a most compelling read.""--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus and Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography ""Intellectually rich, superbly written, compulsively readable, End of Days tells the story of Ruby Ridge so well that you will find it hard not to sympathize with its terrible protagonists, whose conspiratorial theology has migrated in three decades from the lunatic fringe to the seat of government.""--George Packer, National Book Award-winning author of The Unwinding and The Emergency ""With eloquence and insight, Chris Jennings has given us an absorbing portrait of a moment whose implications still shape American life and politics. This is an important story, beautifully told.""--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was Light and The Soul of America

""In this vivid, frightening, and fascinating account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Chris Jennings reveals how the long history of apocalyptic faith and end-of-times theology have fueled wild conspiracy theories in America. If you want to understand our troubled and fraught times, you need to grapple with the forces that led to Ruby Ridge. This book blew me away and opened my eyes.""--Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker and Elon Musk ""Vivid, absorbing, and elegantly narrated, End of Days explores American fundamentalist religion, with its apocalyptic visions of carnage, through the remarkable story of the Weaver family. The conspiracy theories of today, as Jennings makes clear, are rooted in the demon-haunted world of yesterday's zealots.""--Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers and Money, Lies, and God ""Intellectually rich, superbly written, compulsively readable, End of Days tells the story of Ruby Ridge so well that you will find it hard not to sympathize with its terrible protagonists, whose conspiratorial theology has migrated in three decades from the lunatic fringe to the seat of government.""--George Packer, National Book Award-winning author of The Unwinding and The Emergency ""With eloquence and insight, Chris Jennings has given us an absorbing portrait of a moment whose implications still shape American life and politics. This is an important story, beautifully told.""--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was Light and The Soul of America

""In this vivid, frightening, and fascinating account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Chris Jennings reveals how the long history of apocalyptic faith and end-of-times theology have fueled wild conspiracy theories in America. If you want to understand our troubled and fraught times, you need to grapple with the forces that led to Ruby Ridge. This book blew me away and opened my eyes.""--Walter Isaacson, author of THE CODE BREAKER and ELON MUSK ""Vivid, absorbing, and elegantly narrated, End of Days explores American fundamentalist religion, with its apocalyptic visions of carnage, through the remarkable story of the Weaver family. The conspiracy theories of today, as Jennings makes clear, are rooted in the demon-haunted world of yesterday's zealots.""--Katherine Stewart, author of THE POWER WORSHIPPERS and MONEY, LIES, AND GOD

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Chris Jennings is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism (2016). A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker, he grew up in New York City and graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. Jennings lives in Northern California with his family.

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