The Road to Jonestown
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Waterville : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large Print edition.
Description: 955 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Subjects:
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.
Peoples Temple.
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Large type books.
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.
Peoples Temple.
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781410498656
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP BIOGRAPHY Jones, Jim | Ballentine Indoors | Large Print Biography | Out (Due: 4/30/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references.