Books on Peoples Temple and Jonestown by year of publication

  
 


 

The list below is of all published books about Jonestown and Peoples Temple identified by Denice Stephenson of the California Historical Society. This is also the first attempt to arrange the books according to the date of publication.

 

1978

  1. Kilduff, Marshall. The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

  2. Knerr, Michael E. Suicide in Guyana. New York: Belmont Tower Books, 1978.

  3. Krause, Charles A. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account. New York: Berkley, 1978.

  4. Maguire, John. Hold Hands and Die: The Incredibly True Story of the Peoples Temple and the Reverend Jim Jones. New York: Dale Books, 1978.

 

1979

  1. Dem, Marc. Le Demon de Guyana. Paris: H. Veyrier, 1979.

  2. Hirschman, Jack. The Jonestown Arcane. San Francisco: Poetry for the People, 1979. Reprinted in La Jolla, CA: Writing Series, 1991.

  3. Lewis, Gordon K. Gather with the Saints at the River: The Jonestown Guyana Holocaust 1978. Rio Piedras, PR: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1979.

  4. Mills, Jeannie. Six Years with God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple. New York: A & W Publishers, 1979.

  5. Nichols, Norma. Potpourri with a Taste of Cult. [Georgetown, Guyana in 1979 or 1980].

  6. Nugent, John Peer. White Night. New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1979.

  7. Kerns, Phil. Peoples Temple, Peoples Tomb. Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1979.

  8. Rose, Stephen C. Jesus and Jim Jones. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979.

  9. Santos, Manoel Hygino dos. Sangue en Jonestown: Uma Tragedia na Guyana. Belo Horizonte: Edicoes Jupiter, 1979.

  10. Thielmann, Bonnie with Dean Merrill. The Broken God. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, 1979.

  11. White, Mel. Deceived. Old Tappan, NJ: Spire Books, 1979.

 

1980

  1. Ahlberg, Sture. Folkets Tempel: Fallet Jim Jones. Stockholm: Gummesson, 1980.

  2. Klineman, George. The Cult that Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. New York: Putnam, 1980.

  3. Lane, Mark. The Strongest Poison. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1980.

 

1981

  1. Dieckmann, Ed. Beyond Jonestown: ‘Sensitivity Training’ and the Cult of Mind Control. Torrance: Noontide Press, 1981.

  2. Feinsod, Ethan. Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown the Only Eyewitness Account. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1981.

  3. Naipaul, Shiva. Black and White. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Published later as Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy. New York: Penguin, 1982.

  4. Reston, James. Our Father Who Art in Hell. New York: Times Books, 1981.

  5. Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

  6. Yee, Min S. In My Father’s House: The Story of the Layton Family and the Reverend Jim Jones. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1981.

 

1982

  1. Levi, Ken, ed. Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones' People's Temple Movement. University Park: Penn State Press, 1982

  2. Reiterman, Tim with John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People. New York: Dutton, 1982.

 

1983

  1. Judith Weightman, Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of Peoples Temple. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

 

1984

  1. Jackson, George D. Cuname, Curare and Cool Aid: The Politics that Spawned and Nurtured Jonestown. New York: G.D. Jackson Associate, 1984.

 

1985

  1. Moore, Rebecca. A Sympathetic History of Jonestown: The Moore Family Involvement in the Peoples Temple. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985.

  2. Parker, Pat. Jonestown and Other Madness. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1985.

 

1986

  1. Ahlberg, Sture. Messianic Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Sabbatians, the People’s Temple, and the Unification Church. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiskell International, 1986.

  2. Moore, Rebecca. The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family, 1970-1985. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.

 

1987

  1. Alinin, Sergie Fedorovich, B. G. Antonov, A.N. Itskov. The Jonestown Carnage – A CIA Crime. Translated from Russian by N. Burova and S. Chulaki. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.

  2. Hall, John R. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987.

 

1988

  1. McCoy, Alan W. The Guyana Murders. San Francisco: Highland House, 1988.

  2. Meiers, Michael. Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? A Review of the Evidence. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

  3. Moore, Rebecca. In Defense of Peoples Temple. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

  4. Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

 

1989

  1. Hamilton, Sue L. The Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones. Minneapolis: Abdo Consulting, 1989.

  2. Moore, Rebecca and Fielding McGehee III, eds. The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.

  3. Moore, Rebecca and Fielding McGehee III, eds. New religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.

 

 

1990

  1. Melton, J. Gordon, ed. Peoples Temple and Jim Jones: Broadening our Perspective. New York: Garland Pub, 1990.

 

1991

  1. Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and Jonestown. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

 

1992

  1. Landau, Nathan. Heavenly Deceptor. Brooklyn, NY: Sound of Music Publishing Co., 1992.

  2. Pozzi, Enrico. Il Carisma malato: Il People's Temple e il suicidio collettive di Jonestown. Naples: Liguori, 1992.

 

1993

  1. Endleman, Robert. Jonestown and the Manson Family: Race, Sexuality and Collective Madness. New York: Psyche Press, 1993.

  2. The Jonestown Massacre: The Transcript of Reverend Jim Jones’ Last Speech, Guyana 1978. Introduction by Karl Eden. UK: Temple Press, 1993.

 

1995

  1. Introvigne, Massimo. Idee che uccidono. Jonestown, Waco, il Tempio Solare. Milan: Pessano MIMEP-Docete, 1995.

  2. Thrash, Catherine (Hyacinth). The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana. Indianapolis: M. Towne, 1995.

 

1996

  1. Harris, Wilson. Jonestown. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996.

  2. Sutherland, Fraser. Jonestown. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Inc., 1996.

 

1998

  1. Brailey, Jeffrey. The Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana. San Antonio: J & J Publishers, 1998.

  2. Kahalas, Laurie Efrein. Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown. New York: Red Robin Press, 1998.

  3. Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

  4. Maaga, Mary McCormick. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

 

1999

  1. Nesci, Domenico Arturo. The Lessons of Jonestown: An Ethnopsychoanalytic Study of Suicidal Communities. Roma: Societ a Editrice Universo, 1999.

 

2000

  1. Wessinger, Catherine. How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

 

 

2002

  1. De Angelis, Gina. Jonestown Massacre: Tragic End of a Cult. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2002.

 

2004

  1. Moore, Rebecca and Anthony B. Pinn, Mary R. Sawyer, eds. Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

 

2005

  1. Stephenson, Denice, ed. Dear People: Remembering Jonestown. San Francisco: California Historical Society Press, 2005.

 

2008

  1. Wagner-Wilson, Leslie. Slavery of Faith. New York: iUniverse, 2008.

 

2009

  1. Moore, Rebecca. Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2009.

 

2010

  1. Johnston Kohl, Laura. Jonestown Survivor. New York: iUniverse, 2010.

 

2011

  1. Bellefountaine, Michael. A Lavender Look At The Temple. New York: iUniverse, 2011.

  2. Gillespie, Carmen. Jonestown: A Vexation. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press, 2011.

  1. O'Shea, Teri Buford. Jonestown Lullaby. New York: iUniverse, 2011.

  2. Scheeres, Julia. A Thousand Lives. New York: Free Press, 2011.

 

 

 

 


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