![]() In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones' life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost 1,000 of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. ![]() He became involved in electoral politics and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. ![]() Eventually Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to Northern California. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. In the 1950s a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the Gospel and Marxism. ![]() From the New York Times best-selling author of Manson comes the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history. ![]()
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