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Before he orchestrated the murder of more than 900 men, women and children in the jungles of Guyana, Jim Jones was laudable, even admirable. In that paradox lies the power of Jeff Guinn's ...
His latest work is a biography of an equally infamous but more puzzling figure: Jim Jones, the reform-minded Marxist minister who led his followers in 1978 to a mass death by cyanide in Guyana.
Jim Jones was the architect of the Jonestown massacre, in which 918 people died Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.” First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the ...
Jim Jones: Jeff Guinn Biography Is Portrait of Demagouge. Guinn - the author of several bestselling books, including a 2013 biography of Charles Manson - credits Jones with almost single-handedly ...