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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? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.
Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Joness 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 Jonestown to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.
And Fleming heart-stoppingly depicts Joness final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanideto drink the kool-aid, as it became knownas 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.
Author: Candace Fleming
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
Published: 04/29/2025
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780593480069
Language: English
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