The Road to Jonestown av Jeff Guinn

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<b>2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime</b><BR><BR><b>“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (<i>The Boston Globe</i>)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Manson</i>.</b><BR><BR>In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness.<BR><BR> In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of extr