The Road to Jonestown

Jeff Guinn traces Jim Jones from his origins as a charismatic Midwestern preacher and civil-rights activist to the architect of the 1978 Jonestown mass death in Guyana, where over nine hundred followers died. The biography illuminates the slow accumulation of manipulation, messianic ideology and escalating paranoia behind one of history's most catastrophic and deadly cult disasters.

ISBN 9781476763842 · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio · 2017