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How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history. Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster:;from Jones’s humble origins as a child of the Depression… to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers… to his relocation of;Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of;Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.; And Fleming heart-stoppingly depicts Jones’s final act, persuading his followers to;swallow fatal doses of cyanide--to “drink the kool-aid,” as it became known--as a test of their ultimate devotion.; Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the;ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones'' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.
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Candace Fleming
