Raven : The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Paperback)

from profilerSR

As many of us on LT remember, "pastor" Jim Jones established a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown. On November 18, 1978, he coerced the entire settlement (over 900 people, minus a few who escaped) into drinking Flavor-Aid laced with cyanide and other drugs, dying excruciating deaths. How on Go...

from bcquinnsmom

Tim Reiterman was one of the journalists who accompanied Congressman Leo Ryan to Jonestown in November of 1978. His book not only examines what happened there, but goes back to the childhood of Jim Jones and the beginnings of the movement known as the Peoples Temple so as to "capture the lure of ...

from 5hrdrive

The Jonestown Massacre gave me nightmares as a sixteen year-old and it still has the ability to haunt today. This eyewitness account of the tragedy and the long chain of bizarre events that led up it answers every question but one - how could such a sick, paranoid megalomaniac get such a complete...

from SamTekoa

Jim Jones was in many ways a product of our culture. He took what was trendy and popular and used it to get a free pass in his twisted need to control others and validate himself. This book is well researched but a bit of a slog. Healthy skepticism would have possibly protected most of his utopia...

from profilerSR

As many of us on LT remember, "pastor" Jim Jones established a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown. On November 18, 1978, he coerced the entire settlement (over 900 people, minus a few who escaped) into drinking Flavor-Aid laced with cyanide and other drugs, dying excruciating deaths. How on Go...