{"product_id":"road-to-jonestown-by-jeff-guinn","title":"Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn","description":"[Simon \u0026amp; Schuster]\r\n\r\nAn Edgar Award Finalist for Best Fact Crime\r\n \r\n“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.\r\n\r\nIn 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.\r\n \r\n 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 he","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback; 544 pages \/ English","offer_id":52721378918581,"sku":"9781476763835","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/1506\/2709\/files\/c23c6f25e4d8716a8e466d5c5ae54a4c07b74e7c70d9907d19ca9d82b9a77a8e.jpg?v=1781898582","url":"https:\/\/whatthesleuth.com\/products\/road-to-jonestown-by-jeff-guinn","provider":"What the Sleuth!?","version":"1.0","type":"link"}