LEADER 00000nam 22004811i 4500 001 frd00025840 003 CtWfDGI 005 20181107135553.0 006 m eo d 007 cr un ---anuuu 008 181107s2018 xx eo 000 0beng d 020 9781504056762|q(epub) 024 3 9781504056762 040 CtWfDGI|beng|erda|cCtWfDGI 043 n-us-ca|as-gy--- 050 4 F869.S353 082 04 979.4/61053|223 100 1 Flynn, Daniel J.,|eauthor. 245 10 Cult City :|bJim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco /|cDaniel J. Flynn. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bIntercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD),|c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 1 online resource (647 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 506 Access limited to subscribing institutions. 520 In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong. November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America's first openly gay elected officials -- and one of Jim Jones's most vocal supporters -- is assassinated in San Francisco's City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transformed into a fringe figure, a "fundamentalist Christian" and a "fascist." In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the US Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and a US Navy ship named after him. His assassin, a blue- collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco -- the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. 588 0 Print version record. 600 10 Milk, Harvey. 600 10 Jones, Jim,|d1931-1978. 610 20 Peoples Temple|xHistory. 650 0 Cults|zGuyana|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Cults|zCalifornia|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.|2bisacsh 651 0 San Francisco (Calif.)|xPolitics and government|y20th century. 651 0 San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)|xHistory|y20th century. 651 0 San Francisco (Calif.)|xHistory|y20th century. 655 0 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aFlynn, Daniel J.|tCult city.|dWilmington, Delaware : ISI Books, [2018]|z9781610171519 (hardcover) |w(DLC)2018034049 914 frd00025840