The Road to Jonestown Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jeff Guinn
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
257

The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn Book Summary

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime

“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.

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness.

In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing, before the fateful decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred people died—including almost three hundred infants and children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink.

Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is “the most complete picture to date of this tragic saga, and of the man who engineered it…The result is a disturbing portrait of evil—and a compassionate memorial to those taken in by Jones’s malign charisma” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Book Name The Road to Jonestown
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E-Book Size 62.68 MB

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Informative.... Informative... but, I felt the author was too apologetic of Jones at times. As if Jones' legacy (or the fact that he was responsible for the deaths of 900+ people -- a third of which were children) shouldn't be condemned because he did a few good things earlier in life.

Audio doesn’t match my hard copy. I bought the audio version of this book because I have a lot of drive time with work and thought it would help me to finish it faster, but the audio version does not match my physical copy. The audio version has less chapters and I have yet to find page that matches the audio version is saying.

A very long but incredible read.. A very long but incredible read. Wild testimony showcasing the good and the bad of a once missions focused group.

Very interesting.... This book brought me enlightenment into a story and part of American history that I had always been intrigued with yet knew very little about. I always thought Jones was a dangerous narcissistic sociopath from the beginning who only wanted to control people and extend his own financial and social wealth. While he certainly had narcissistic traits, and let his addictions and delusions ruin Peoples Temple, he did seem to believe in social and economic equality in the beginning. Above all, this book shed light on the tragedy and put it in the perspective of starting as a honorable and beautiful experiment in socialism yet ended in such a terrible and sad way for Jones and all his followers. This book kept me compelled to read it the entire time! 10/10 recommended!

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Summary of The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn

The The Road to Jonestown book written by Jeff Guinn was published on 11 April 2017, Tuesday in the True Crime category. A total of 257 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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