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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) 
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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)
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