Back to the World - A Life after Jonestown (Paperback)

Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Repatriated by the US authorities on New Year's Eve, he broke a $50 bill stashed in his shoe to buy breakfast for himself and a fellow survivor. Returning to California at age twenty-one, Smith faced the daunting challenge of building from scratch a meaningful and self-sufficient life in the American society he thought he had left behind. 'My first responsibility as a survivor,' he writes, 'was not to embarrass my mother or my wife or my child, and to set an example that can't be questioned.' Back to the World: A Life after Jonestown is the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. Having survived, Smith has hard questions for today's America. 'It's irritating to me that, four decades later, like a broken record, we're going through all this all over again,' he writes.

General

Imprint:	Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Eugene Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-87565-778-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects Books > Biography > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects Books > Christianity > Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects Promotions
LSN:	0-87565-778-8
Barcode:	9780875657783

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