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the life and death of Jim Jones

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An edition of Our father who art in hell (1981)

Our father who art in hell

the life and death of Jim Jones

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Tells the story of Jim Jones and People Temple in Guyana and the events that led to the mass suicide of 913 members of People's Temple.

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Times Books
Language
English
Pages
338

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Subjects
Biography, Mass suicide, Peoples Temple, Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
People
Jim Jones (1931-1978)
Places
Guyana

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Table of Contents

Prologue
The bishop's sanctuary
The power of the profane word
Jann
The child in the triangle
The greatest decision in history
Tricking the natives
To Russia, wistfully
Mirrors and prisms
Phantoms large and small
May 13, 1978
The last of Jim Jones
Apocalypse
Epilogue

Edition Notes

Subtitle from jacket.

Copyright Date
1981

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
289.9, B
Library of Congress
BP605.P46 R47 1981

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 338 p.
Number of pages
338
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4110554M
Internet Archive
ourfatherwhoarti00rest
ISBN 10
0812909631
ISBN 13
9780812909630
LCCN
80025510
OCLC/WorldCat
6890166
Library Thing
4739786
Goodreads
895129

Work Description

This is the definitive work on the Guyana tragedy when on November 18, 1978, 913 followers of a captivating American preacher named Reverend Jim Jones and members of the People's Temple cult joined in a mass suicide, drinking poison (or having it injected into them) and lying down quietly to die together. Through the Freedom of Information Act, author James Reston, Jr. obtained more than 800 hours of tape recordings made in the jungle. Reston chronicles the descent into madness of the cult leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. How could this have happened and why? Who was Jim Jones and what were his techniques? What was the shape of his descent into barbarism in the jungle? Who were his followers and what was the nature of their choice, if any, when Jones proposed that they all die together? - Publisher.

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