Stuart A. Wright

Stuart A. Wright is an American sociology professor and author, who has served as an expert on several high-profile criminal trials in the United States. He is chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. ^[1]

His book Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing examines the right-wing groups that facilitated the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. ^[2] Wright went on to work on the legal defense team for Timothy McVeigh, arguing against his characterization as a "lone wolf". ^[3]

Bibliography

• Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict , University Of Chicago Press (September 20, 1995), ISBN   0-226-90845-3.
• The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die or Dissipate , Bloomsbury Academic Publishers (December 2020), ISBN   978-1-3501-6291-4.
• Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics), Cambridge University Press (June 30, 2007), ISBN   0-521-69419-1.
• Saints under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (with James T. Richardson) (August 2011), New York University Press, ISBN   978-0-8147-9529-3.
• Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities (with Susan J. Palmer) (2016) Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-0-19-539890-8.

References

1. "Faculty". Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences. Lamar University . Retrieved July 12, 2025.
2. Wright, Stuart A. (February 2009). "Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing – By Stuart A. Wright Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity – By Michael J. Mazarr". Political Psychology. 30 (1): 158–160. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00686.x – via EBSCOhost.
3. Baker, Max B. (April 29, 2015). "A Tragedy Remembered". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved July 12, 2025– via Newspapers.com.