Can I read In my father's house : the story of the Layton family and the Reverend Jim Jones on EtoBox?

In my father's house : the story of the Layton family and the Reverend Jim Jones by Min S Yee; Thomas N Layton is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is In my father's house : the story of the Layton family and the Reverend Jim Jones about?

The world recoiled from the holocaust of Jonestown in disbelief. How could it have happened, this wholesale possession of intelligent and sensitive human beings in the grip of a mad messiah, even over the brink of self-annihilation? Not any of the several books given to us so far about Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple have come close to answering that staggering question. This one does. *In My Father's House* is, above all, the self-revelation of an American family—advantaged, sophisticated, successful—whose search for the American Dream became a harrowing nightmare of victimization and desperate survival. The Layton story is at once extraordinary and universal, as it tells us of: - The patriarch, Laurence, who came from fundamentalist Southern stock with a narrow, puritanical view of human morals to become an eminent research scientist, and a paterfamilias hard put to cope with the effects on his children of changing social standards. - The mother, Lisa, daughter of a cultured German family, who fled the threat of the Nazi concentration camps only to die in the jungle camp of Jonestown, having transferred over a quarter of a million dollars of family savings to Peoples Temple. - T

Author

Min S Yee; Thomas N Layton

Publisher

Holt Rinehart & Winston; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780030533969

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14