Hearing the Voices of Jonestown: Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy

by Mary McCormick Maaga

Book Overview

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals that originally inspired Peoples Temple members. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was created--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815605153
• ISBN13: 9780815605157
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"