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The road to jonestown by jeff guinn6/20/2023 But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. “A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” ( The Boston Globe)-the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson. 2018 Edgar Award Finalist-Best Fact Crime
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