A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

Julia Scheeres

307 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion true crime challenging dark slow-paced
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“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.”                                                             — Jim Jones, September 6, 1975      In 1954, a pastor named ...

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Moods

dark 96%
informative 68%
sad 68%
emotional 55%
challenging 41%
tense 41%
reflective 20%
mysterious 3%

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slow 14%
fast 7%

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