Gone from the promised land
Subtitle: Jonestown in American cultural history
By: John R. Hall ; with a new introduction by the author.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Peoples Temple.; Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Description: "Elizabeth Stone weaves her own family stories among the stories of more than a hundred people of all backgrounds, ages, and regions, providing ways to interpret our own stories and their roles in our lives. She examines stories of birth, death, work, money, and romance, and she shows how stories about our most ancient ancestors may provide guidance at milestone moments, as well as how stories about our newest family members carve out places for them."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-370) and index.
Originally published: 1987.