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"A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a
charismatic and crazed tyrant" (The New York Times Book Review).In
1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis
called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic
preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews
with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As
Jones's behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his
followers leaned on each other to recapture the sense of equality
that had drawn them to his church. But even as the congregation
thrived, Jones made it increasingly difficult for members to leave.
By the time Jones moved his congregation to a remote jungle in
Guyana and the U.S. government began to investigate allegations of
abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late. A
Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told.
New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from tens of
thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as
well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an
unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing
on the people who lived there. The people who built Jonestown
wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. In
South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown
and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them
toward committing "revolutionary suicide" and deprived them of
food, sleep, and hope. Vividly written and impossible to forget, A
Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of
corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.
At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling
from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support
herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a
writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even
swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine
shut down, she moved to the Bay Area. Armed with moxie and samples
of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and
was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally
syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over
thirty years and garnered more than twenty million readers. Told in
cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres and
award-winning journalist Allison Gilbert, Listen, World! is the
inspiring story of a timeless maverick, capturing what it means to
take a gamble on self-fulfillment and find freedom along the way.
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