Format:
xiii, 338 pages
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23 cm
ISBN:
0595167438
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9780595167432
Content:
Overview: 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
Content:
Prologue -- Bishop's sanctuary -- Power of the profane word -- Jann -- Child in the triangle -- Greatest decision in history -- Tricking the natives -- Russia, wistfully -- Mirrors and prisms -- Phantoms large and small -- May 13, 1978 -- Last of Jim Jones -- Apocalypse -- Epilogue
Note:
Originally published: New York Times, ©1981
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"An Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition."
Language:
English
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