Thousand Lives The Untold Story of Jonestown

Name: Thousand Lives The Untold Story of Jonestown
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ISBN: 9781416596400

ISBN-10: 1416596402

ISBN-13: 9781416596400

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Authors: Julia Scheeres

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“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. After Jones moved his church to Northern California in 1965, he became a major player in Northern California politics. Even as Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers found it increasingly difficult to pull away from the church. By the time Jones relocated the Peoples Temple a…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction



An Adventure



Church



Redwood Valley



"Dad"



Edith



Traitors



Exodus



Pioneers



The Promised Land



Georgetown



Siege



Bullets to Kill Bumblebees



Runaways



Concern



Control



Release



Drill



Hyacinth



Stanley



Relatives



The Embassy



The Widening Gyre



Escape



Chaos



November



Ryan



End



Bodies



Survivors


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index


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