Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana (201P)

by Marshall Kilduff and Ron Javers

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553129201
• ISBN13: 9780553129205
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

FINE OVERVIEW

Published just after the mass suicide in 78, The Suicide Cult gives us a good look at Jones, Ryan, the People's Temple, and the airstrip shooting. It provides a fine overview of this most unusual event, and is most valuable as an eyewitness account of some of the cult's last moments. As expected for a book of this kind, though, there is little analysis or depth. I was also surprised that so little was included about the suicide itself. Perhaps the sources just aren't there; the people involved all dead.

good read, but seducitve posion is personal and intimate

I read this book along with Seductive Poison, a memoir by one of Jones financial secretaries. Ms Layton's book was more profound in that she allows a fascinating look inside the inner working of a madman's Temple. Thankfully she finally caught on and blew the whistle.Both books ought to be reguired reading on high school and college campuses.

EXCELLENT BOOK!!!

NO PERSON HAD MORE POWER OVER HIS PEOPLE NEXT TO HITLER THAN JIM JONES!!!THE AMERICAN HITLER!!THE AUTHORS TRACE THE CHILD HOOD OF THIS BRILLIANT BUT MAD MAN AND COVER THE RISING OF THE PEOPLE TEMPLE AND THE TRAGIC ENDING!!! A MUST READ!!!

For an exceptional and POWERFUL read...

...and one that is written from the inside out I would also suggest SEDUCTIVE POISON by Deborah Layton. It has received incredible reviews both on-line and in print. It is a insider's riveting accountof how and why people were caught up in this humanitarian organization. JimJones was a well respected politician and Reverend in teh early 70's and many young Vietnam protesting rebels joined him.What had seemed like a Humanitarian organization soon turned darker and 900 of his more than 3,000 members found themselves isolated in a jungle and suddenly unable to leave. VERY POWERFUL!

The Suicide Cult The Inside Story of the People's Temple Sec

This book was one of a kind regarding the many books I have read covering the Jonestown massacres. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I was unable to put it down. I felt as if I were there the authors did such a vivid job covering those horrible days leading to the final holocaust over in Guyana. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who would like a fact based view of those final days over there.