Death In The Jungle - Candace Fleming

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. A Yalsa Excellence In Nonfiction Winner A Scbwi Golden Kite Award Finalist One Of The Best Books Of The Year: Publishers Weekly, Bookpage, Horn Book, Booklist, The Bulletin Of The Center For Childrens Books, School Library Journal Using Riveting First-person Accounts, Award-winning Author Candace Fleming Reveals The Makings Of A Monster: From Jonesrsquo;s Humble Origins As A Child Of The Depressionhellip; To His Founding Of A Group Whose Idealistic Promises Of Equality And Justice Attracted Thousands Of Followershellip; To His Relocation Of Temple Headquarters From California To An Unsettled Territory In Guyana, South America, Which He Dubbed Jonestownrdquo; To His Transformation Of Peoples Temple Into A Nefarious Experiment In Mind-control.