Learning Lessons from Waco: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation Table

by Jayne Seminare Docherty

Book Overview

Heated debates about "what really happened in Waco" are a recurring public drama. Yet, little or no attention has been given to the work of the negotiators who talked with the Branch Davidians. In this important book, Jayne Seminare Docherty utilizes largely unexplored sources of data to explain why fifty-one days of negotiations by federal officials failed to get all of the Branch Davidians to exit the compound.

Learning Lessons from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815627769
• ISBN13: 9780815627760
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"