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.