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Book

A thousand lives : the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown

Call Number

  • 289.9 S315 (CEN)

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Edition

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Publication Information

New York : Free Press, 2011.

Physical Description

xii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.

Contents

  • An adventure
  • Church
  • Redwood Valley
  • "Dad"
  • Edith
  • Traitors
  • Exodus
  • Pioneers
  • The promised land
  • Georgetown
  • Siege
  • Bullets to kill bumblebees
  • Runaways
  • Concern
  • Control
  • Release
  • Drill
  • Hyacinth
  • Stanley
  • Relatives
  • The Embassy
  • Control
  • Escape
  • Chaos
  • November
  • Ryan
  • End
  • Bodies
  • Survivors.

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