Death in the jungle: murder, betrayal, and the lost dream of Jonestown

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Author:
Fleming, Candace
Publisher:
Anne Schwartz Book
Publication Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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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.

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Jones, Jim
Jones, Jim, -- 1931-1978 -- Psychology
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
Peoples Temple -- Biography
Psychology

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9780593480069
Lexile measure:
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