{"product_id":"stories-from-jonestown-paperback-softback-9780816678099","title":"Stories from Jonestown (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816678099","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStories from Jonestown\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeigh Fondakowski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816678099\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fondakowski perfectly captures the rapturous hope surrounding Jonestown, which makes its demise all the more heartbreaking.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that seeks to set the record straight about the culture and politics of Peoples Temple, and as such is a crucial addition to the Jonestown canon. For perhaps the first time, we hear the voices of the Temple instead of seeing the casualties. We get an indelible sense of the believers' youth and optimism, along with the vulnerability that drove them into the arms of the wilderness. Not all of them killed themselves willingly, but all of them gambled on Jones's promise of a better life. They gambled on a future where all they had sacrificed would mean something to the world. The tragic irony is that it did.\"-\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is an immediacy to the stories - from survivors, members' families, press, politicians, and community leaders - many of which have never been printed before. Time seems to travel backward, taking the reader along.\"-\u003ci\u003eJMark Afghans\u003c\/i\u003e Blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book, written by Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film \u003ci\u003eThe Laramie Project\u003c\/i\u003e, is well worth taking the time to read. \"-\u003ci\u003eTwo Weeks From Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e Blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sweeping reminder of the promise that drew so many under Jones’ sway, and the horrors that eventually befell them. It allows the people of the Peoples Temple to speak in their own words, unframed from mass perception. \"-\u003ci\u003ePopMatters.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"After nearly 35 years, it feels as if the horrible tale of the Jonestown tragedy has been told from every perspective. As new book \u003ci\u003eStories from Jonestown\u003c\/i\u003e shows us though, there are some voices that have remained unheard through all of this time. Through a series of interviews with survivors, author Leigh Fondakowski presents a compelling account of life with Jim Jones in Guyana. Along the way, she illuminates the numerous falsehoods which have been accepted as fact over the years as well. Most of all, \u003ci\u003eStories from Jonestown\u003c\/i\u003e presents ordinary people whose lives have been irrevocably altered by tragic events. It is a remarkable book.\"-\u003ci\u003eBlogCritics.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Required reading for anybody curious about Jonestown and the ways that even the most Utopian society can turn sour and deadly.\"-\u003ci\u003eBibliosaurus Text \u003c\/i\u003eBlog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For me, this was a haunting book, but one I’m glad I read. Because the tragedy of Jonestown was real, a reminder that people’s grandest plans sometimes take very wrong turns.\"-\u003ci\u003eJennifer R. Hubbard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you’ve got a true crime lover on your gift list this year, then look for \u003ci\u003eStories from Jonestown \u003c\/i\u003eby Leigh Fondakowski. This book delves deep into what happened 35 years ago in Guyana and why it happened, and it includes interviews with survivors. This is chilling stuff, and not for the faint of heart – which is why you must give it to your favorite true crime buff.\"-\u003ci\u003eSun News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Intriguing, engaging, and very human.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fondakowski has succeeded in creating an empathetic portrait of a group of people who lived through and were changed by a remarkable historical experience.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew West Indian Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A testimony of Fondakowski’s own personal journey of discovery and empathy.\"-\u003ci\u003eTrue Crime Factor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe saga of Jonestown didn’t end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film \u003ci\u003eThe Laramie Project\u003c\/i\u003e, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong-taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown’s end still affects their lives decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful-of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eTwo Days in November\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lost Voices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Interviews\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart I: Collect All the Tapes, All the Writing, All the History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nobody was Paying Attention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I was His Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My Button was Fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jonestown Vortex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Godly Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Man of His Word\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Air They Breathed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I’ve Been to the Shadows\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart II: Until We Meet Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Take the City Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Too Black\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Homicide is Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We All Participated\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sole Survivor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hundreds of Kids\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is Big\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Waylaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stigmata\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Dream\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart III: To Whom Much is Given\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sixty-seven Cents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nefarious\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We Were Rising\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Basis of a Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s No Mystery\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart IV: The Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What a Place for Them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exodus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That’s Jonestown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Death is Real\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Second Chance\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart V: The Ones Who Got Away\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Known Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My Children Are There\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conspiracist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Ones Who Got Away\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Undetermined\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Something to Gain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Evergreen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I Won’t Say Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Bittersweet Gift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThe 918 Deaths of November 18, 1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712063828248,"sku":"9780816678099","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stories-from-jonestown-paperback-softback-9780816678099","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}