A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

322 Pages·2011·3.96 MB·English

by  Julia Scheeres

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Scheeres, Julia.
A thousand lives : the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown /
by Julia
Scheeres.—1st Free Press hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. I. Title.
BP605.P46S34 2011
289.9—dc22
2011012169
ISBN 978-1-4165-9639-4
ISBN 978-1-45162896-8 (ebook) All endpaper images used with permission from
Peoples Temple Collection, California Historical Society.