List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Terrorism PART I: The Nineteenth Century Chapter 1: "A Sight Which Can Never Be Forgotten": The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) Chapter 2: "The Gentle, Kindhearted Bioterrorist": Luke Pryor Blackburn and the Yellow Fever Plot (1864-1865) Chapter 3: "We May Suspect That Race was the Cause of the Hostility": The Colfax Massacre (1873) PART II: The Modern Era Chapter 4: "The McNamaras Have Betrayed Labor": The Los Angeles Times Bombing (1910) Chapter 5: "An Explosion Just Like the Sound of a Gatling Gun": The Wall Street Bombing (1920) Chapter 6: "A President Has to Expect These Things": The Truman Assassination Attempt (1950) Chapter 7: "The Klan is Back on the Market": The Sixteenth Street Bombing and the Civil Rights Movement (1963) Chapter 8: "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Winds Blows": Weatherman and the Counterculture Movement (1960s) PART III: Postmodern Terror Chapter 9: "A Revolution Against the Industrial System": The Unabomber (1970s-1990s) Chapter 10: "How Charged with Punishments the Scroll": The Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Chapter 11: "There is a Bomb in Centennial Park; You Have 30 Minutes": Eric Robert Rudolph (Late 1990s) Chapter 12: "The System was Blinking Red": The Radical Islamic Movement and the September 11 Attacks PART IV: Conclusion The Lessons of Terrorism Notes References About the Author