Bibliograph

The road to Jonestown, Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, Jeff Guinn

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The road to Jonestown, Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, Jeff Guinn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The road to Jonestown

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

967201530

Responsibility statement

Jeff Guinn

Series statement

Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction

Sub title

Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Summary

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was active in the civil rights movement. Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to California and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. Jeff Guinn examines Jones's life, from his affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to the jungles of Guyana. New details emerge of the events leading to the day in November, 1978, when more than nine hundred people died after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink

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Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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