Fleming, Candace.

Death in the jungle : murder, betrayal, and the lost dream of Jonestown / Candace Fleming. - New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, c2025. - 356 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history. Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones's humble origins as a child of the Depression... to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers... to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown"... to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.

Grades 10-12 Anne Schwartz Books

ISBN: 9780593480069 0593480066

LCCN: 2024018777

Subjects--Personal Names:
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Peoples Temple.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Suicide victims.
Murder victims.
Cults.
Brainwashing.
Suicide.
Murder.

Dewey Class. No.: 289.9