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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown
A Thousand Lives The Untold Story of Jonestown
Author: Julia Scheeres
?A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant? (The New York Times Book Review).In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781416596400
ISBN-10: 1416596402
Publication Date: 11/13/2012
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Paperback
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