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The road to Jonestown [large type] : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple / Jeff Guinn.

by Guinn, Jeff, author.

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Waterville : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.

Peoples Temple.

Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.

9781410498656 (large print ; hardcover)

1410498654 (large print ; hardcover)

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.

955 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Large print edition.

Part one: Indiana. Lynetta and Jim ; Lynn ; Jimmy ; Growing up ; Richmond ; Marceline ; Jim and Marceline ; Beginnings ; A church where you get something now ; Peoples Temple ; Gaining influence ; Father Divine ; "All races together" ; A man to be reckoned with ; Breakdown ; Brazil ; Looking west -- Part two: California. Redneck Valley ; Dead end ; Resurrection ; Carolyn ; A socialist example ; Money ; Worker bees ; On the road ; Failures ; Drugs ; Sex ; Family ; The planning commission ; Los Angeles ; San Francisco ; Narrow escapes ; Reaching out ; The gang of eight ; Consequences ; The promised land ; Kimo ; City politics ; More money ; Defectors ; "Our year of ascendancy" ; New West -- Part three: Guyana. Jonestown ; Concerned relatives and the first White Night ; Death will be painless ; Betrayals ; Unraveling ; Final days ; "Some place that hope runs out" ; What happened? ; Aftermath.

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 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 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.

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