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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by Candace Fleming
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Synopsis
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch?Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a cult leader...from Jonesâs ...
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch?
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a cult leader...from Jonesâs humble origins as a child of the Depression⊠to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers⊠to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestownâ⊠to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.
And Fleming relates Jonesâs final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanideâto âdrink the kool-aid,â as it became knownâas a test of their ultimate devotion.
Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a cult leader...from Jonesâs humble origins as a child of the Depression⊠to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers⊠to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestownâ⊠to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.
And Fleming relates Jonesâs final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanideâto âdrink the kool-aid,â as it became knownâas a test of their ultimate devotion.
Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.
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