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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Fleming, Candace

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 0593480074
ISBN13: 9780593480076
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

A YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER - A SCBWI GOLDEN KITE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Horn Book, Booklist, The Bulletin of The Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal

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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