"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. Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones's humble origins as a child of the Depression. . . to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers. . . to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown". . . to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control."--
