The road to Jonestown
Subtitle: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 955
ISBN-13: 9781410498656
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Large type books; Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978; Peoples Temple
Other titles: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 857-952).