A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781451628968 (145162896X)
Publish date: October 11th 2011
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
Religion,
Crime,
True Crime,
Psychology,
Cults
This week, I've been finishing the audiobook version of A Thousand Lives, Scheeres' account of the Jonestown massacre. I have also discovered Thirty Seconds to Mars. Tears and awe in the car--and I've been amazed at the eerie appropriateness of the lyrics to many songs on the LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAM...
This book will lead you on a tour of humanity that could make you despair. How people were so astonishingly stupid (stupid may sound harsh, but as the tale of the people's temple unfolds, it's really the only conclusion I could come to) to fall for Jim Jones and his lunacy is something that is impos...
I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me. - Jim JonesThis is about Jonestown, Jim Jones, and how he took almost a thousand lives. We remember it as a mass suicide, and the phrase "drinking the kool aid," has come to mean someone who mindle...
Scheeres effectively demytholgizes and poignantly puts human faces on this terrifying tragedy.
This is a well-researched and docuemnted book detailing the lives of Jim Jones's followers. The narrative is based on 50,000 pages of documents (diaries, notes, etc) released by the FBI and seized from Jonestown. The author has a good voice and is able to convey both Jim Jones's persuasiveness, at...
11 years ago
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