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A thousand lives : the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown / Julia Scheeres.
- Title
- A thousand lives : the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown / Julia Scheeres.
- Author
- Scheeres, Julia.
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | BP605.P46 S34 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- What started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.
- Alternative Title
- Untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-292) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- An adventure -- Church -- Redwood Valley -- "Dad" -- Edith -- Traitors -- Exodus -- Pioneers -- The promised land -- Georgetown -- Siege -- Bullets to kill bumblebees -- Runaways -- Concern -- Control -- Release -- Drill -- Hyacinth -- Stanley -- Relatives -- The Embassy -- Control -- Escape -- Chaos -- November -- Ryan -- End -- Bodies -- Survivors.
- ISBN
- 9781416596394
- 1416596399
- LCCN
- ^^2011012169
- OCLC
- 709673140
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library