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James C. Rose’s *Jesus and Jim Jones* offers an in‑depth portrait of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, centering on the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana. The book gathers an unprecedented array of primary documents—including Jones’ writings on organized religion and a transcript of a tape purporting to capture his final moments—providing scholars and readers a detailed, factual record of the events that shocked the world.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Rose, Stephen C.
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