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In her novel
Beautiful Revolutionary
Laura Elizabeth Woollett reveals in unrelenting and compelling detail the rise and fall of Jim Jones and the fate of the 'beautiful revolutionaries'of his Peoples Temple.
The tone of the novel is exceptionally bleak and foreboding as befits a tale of the infiltration and corruption of the hearts and minds of Jones's gullible pilgrims and the eventual mass murder-suicide of over 900 of them in Jonestown Guyana in November 1978. It was astounding to read of ...more
The tone of the novel is exceptionally bleak and foreboding as befits a tale of the infiltration and corruption of the hearts and minds of Jones's gullible pilgrims and the eventual mass murder-suicide of over 900 of them in Jonestown Guyana in November 1978. It was astounding to read of ...more
