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Investigates the deaths of the nearly three hundred children who were victims of the mass cyanide poisoning at Jonestown, analyzing the social and political factors that enabled Jones to exercise the power of life and death over the children.
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The children of Jonestown
1981, McGraw-Hill
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- 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed.
0070716412 9780070716414
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Page 1
1.
Child Abuse and Terror in People's Temple
Page 6
2.
Manipulation of Court Guardianships and Children's Lives
Page 20
3.
Jim Jones Versus the Family
Page 38
4.
Brainwashing Dreams
Page 57
5.
Financial Building Blocks of Jones' Empire
Page 76
6.
Politics + Public Relations = Power
Page 91
7.
The Paralysis and Failure of Government
Page 116
8.
The Quest of Leo Ryan
Page 146
9.
The Last White Night
Page 171
10.
The Politics of National Shame
Page 192
11.
The Cults and Human Rights for Children
Page 202
Appendix: "Accusation of Human Rights Violations by Rev. James Warren Jones Against Our Children and Relatives . . ." by the Concerned Relatives Organization, April 11, 1978.
Page 210
Biography and Sources
Page 221
Index
Page 229
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 221-227.
Includes index.
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