num_pages: 338
description: The life and death of Jim Jones and the definitive account of the Jonestown Massacre. This is the definitive work on the Guyana tragedy when on November 18, 1978, one thousand members of the People's Temple cult killed themselves in a Guyana jungle by drinking poison-laced Kool-Aid. Through the Freedom of Information Act, author James Reston, Jr. obtained more than 800 hours of tape recordings made in the jungle. Reston chronicles the descent into madness of the cult leader, the Reverend Jim Jones.
language: English
title: Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones
titlecomplete: Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones
genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, True Crime
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Times Books