| Edition |
Large Print edition. |
| Description |
955 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print rda |
| Series |
Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.
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Peoples Temple.
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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978. (OCoLC)fst00031126
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Peoples Temple. (OCoLC)fst00530086
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Jonestown Mass Suicide (Guyana : 1978) (OCoLC)fst01709835
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Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
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Large type books.
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Guyana. (OCoLC)fst01208722
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| Chronological Term |
1978
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| Added Title |
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple |
| ISBN |
9781410498656 (hardcover) |
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1410498654 (hardcover) |
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