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Also by Jeff Guinn:

The Autobiography of Santa Claus, October 2018
Hardcover
The Road to Jonestown, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Buffalo Trail, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Manson, August 2013
Hardcover
Go Down Together, March 2009
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The Road to Jonestown
Jeff Guinn

Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Simon & Schuster
April 2017
On Sale: April 11, 2017
544 pages
ISBN: 1476763828
EAN: 9781476763828
Kindle: B01HMXV0AQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Religion | Non-Fiction History

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre—the largest murder-suicide in American history. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California. He became involved in electoral politics, and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred people died—including almost three hundred infants and children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink. Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is the definitive book about Jim Jones and the events that led to the tragedy at Jonestown.

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