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The Road to Jonestown - Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Paperback)
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The Road to Jonestown - Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Paperback)
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List price R463
Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
You Save R128 (28%)
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime “A thoroughly
readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and
his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive
story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown
Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the
New York Times bestselling author of Manson. In the 1950s, a young
Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of
the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he
was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones
moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he
got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area
leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness. In
this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from
his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of
extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing,
before the fateful decision to move almost a thousand of his
followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South
America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading
to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred
people died—including almost three hundred infants and
children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink.
Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case,
including material released during the course of his research. He
traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people
never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from
Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the
same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was
murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is “the most
complete picture to date of this tragic saga, and of the man who
engineered it…The result is a disturbing portrait of evil—and a
compassionate memorial to those taken in by Jones’s malign
charisma” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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