The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
4.16
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st…
Want to Read $ 13.99"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were."-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were."-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were."-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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