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From Waco To Heaven's Gate, The Past Decade Has Seen Its Share Of Cult Tragedies. But None Has Been Quite So Dramatic Or Compelling As The Jonestown Massacre, In Which The Reverend Jim Jones And 913 Of His Disciples Of The Peoples Temple Perished. Deborah Layton Had Been A Member For Seven Years When She Left Peoples Temple Headquarters In San Francisco, California, For Jonestown, Guyana, The Promised Land Nestled Deep In The South American Jungle. It Was A Place Where Devoted Peoples Temple Members Believed They Could Escape Racism And Persecution From The Press And The Government In The United States, And Live Peacefully In A Socialist Utopia. When She Arrived, However, Layton Saw That Something Was Seriously Wrong. The Settlement Was Surrounded By Armed Guards, Food Was Scarce, And Members Were Forced To Work Long Hours And Follow Rigid Codes Of Behavior. Jones, Who Was Becoming Increasingly Delusional And Dictatorial, Constantly Spoke Of A Revolutionary Mass Suicide, And Layton Knew Only Too Well That He Had Enough Control Over The Minds Of Jonestown Residents To Carry It Out. When He Finally Did, In November Of 1978, The News That Over Nine Hundred Americans Had Swallowed Cyan

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Author

Layton, Deborah, 1953-

Publisher

Doubleday/Anchor Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385489836

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.05 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14