Ebook {Epub PDF} The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

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. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of Released on: Ap. Jeff Guinn’s Edgar Award-nominated work, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, begins with this horrifying and well-known end, but it also reveals that there was far more to Jim Jones than we know. Jim Jones was a complicated man. Born in in a small town in Indiana, he was far ahead of his time, seeking a way to lift up Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. An Amazon Best Book of April It’s interesting that the dust jacket for The Road to Jonestown, Jeff Guinn’s biography Jim Jones, features a photograph of the infamous preacher without his signature, nearly ubiquitous www.doorway.rue the scale of the Jonestown tragedy – where more than people died, willingly or not, on Novem – the man behind the shades and his /5().

Jeff Guinn's Edgar Award-nominated work, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, begins with this horrifying and well-known end, but it also reveals that there was far more to Jim Jones than we know. Jim Jones was a complicated man. Born in in a small town in Indiana, he was far ahead of his time, seeking a way to lift up. Jim Jones is the only person who can truly answer that, and he's dead, but investigative journalist Jeff Guinn comes pretty close. Guinn's The Road to Jonestown is a crisply written, brilliantly researched chronicle of a troubled, ultimately monstrous figure and the flock he led astray. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Paperback - Illustrated, April 10 by Jeff Guinn (Author) › Visit Amazon's Jeff Guinn page. Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author. Jeff Guinn (Author) out.

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple: Author: Jeff Guinn: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Simon and Schuster, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. Guinn's The Road to Jonestown is a crisply written, brilliantly researched chronicle of a troubled, ultimately monstrous figure and the flock he led astray. -- "Literary Hub" Magisterial Guinn's exhaustive research, shrewd analysis, and engaging prose illuminate a monstrous yet tragic figure-and the motives of those who lost their souls to him. Author Jeff Guinn has written a very detailed and interesting book and character study of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. As a child of disfunctional parents with a Mother who predicted great things for him, Jim Jones was an odd child that was obsessed with Religion and had a penchant for memorizing scripture as well as attending multiple religious services.