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Alinin, S. F., Antonov, B. G. and A. N. Itskov. The Jonestown Carnage \u2013 A CIA Crime<\/i><\/a>. Translated from Russian by N. Burova and S. Chulaki. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. (Russian version<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Appel, Willa. Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise<\/i>. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.<\/p>\n

Bacon, Margaret. Journey to Guyana<\/i>. London: Dobson Books, 1970.<\/p>\n

Boyle, James J. Killer Cults<\/i>. New York: St. Martin\u2019s Paperbacks, 1995.<\/p>\n

Carpozi, George Jr. The Suicide Cults<\/i>. New York: Manor Books, 1978.<\/p>\n

Cawthorne, Nigel. The World\u2019s Greatest Cults<\/i>. London: Chancellor Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Conn, David.\u00a0The Pleasure of Fiends: An Orthodox Study of Evil and the Meaning in the Jonestown Cultic Horror<\/i>. Printed by AlphaGraphics, Roseville, CA, 2013.<\/p>\n

Coser, Rose L. and Louis Coser. \u201cJonestown as Perverse Utopia.\u201d Dissent<\/i>26, no. 2 (1979): 158\u201362.<\/p>\n

Cowan, William J. \u201cThe Guyana Mass Suicides: Medicolegal Re-evaluation.\u201d New England Journal of Medicine\u00a0<\/i>300, no. 23 (7 June 1979): 1321.<\/p>\n

Daniels, Elam J. An Expos\u00e9 of the King of the Cults<\/i>. Orlando, Fla.: Christ for the World, 1979.<\/p>\n

De Angelis, Gina. Jonestown Massacre: Tragic End of a Cult<\/i>. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2002.<\/p>\n

Dieckmann, Ed Jr. Beyond Jonestown: \u2018Sensitivity Training\u2019 and the Cult of Mind Control<\/a><\/i>. Torrance, Calif.: Noontide Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

_____. The Secret of Jonestown: The Reason Why<\/i><\/a>. Torrance, Calif.: Noontide Press and Decatur, Ga.: Historical Review Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

The Disciple: Journal of the Christian Church\u00a0<\/i>(Disciples of Christ) 131, no. 7 (July 1993) has three articles which look at the Disciples of Christ\u2019s relationship with Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n

DisciplesWorld\u00a0<\/i>7, no. 9 (November 2008) has five articles and an editorial commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the deaths in Jonestown.<\/p>\n

Eco, Umberto. \u201cThe Suicides of the Temple.\u201d In West of the West: Imagining California<\/i>, ed. Leonard Michaels, David Redi, Raquel Scherr, 311\u201315. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

Endleman, Robert. Jonestown and the Manson Family: Race, Sexuality and Collective Madness<\/i>. New York: Psyche Press, 1993.<\/p>\n

Facon, R. and J. M. Parent. 1980. Sectes et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Secr\u00e8tes Aujourd’hui. Le Complot des Ombres<\/em>. Paris: Lefeuvre.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, Sue L. The Death of a Cult Family: Jim Jones<\/i>. Bloomington, Minn.: Abdo and Daughters, 1989.<\/p>\n

Klenetsky, K. “How Jonestown Happened under Carter\/Mondale.”<\/a> Executive Intelligence Review<\/em> 10, 49 (1983):24-26. <\/p>\n

Landau, Nathan. Heavenly Deceptor<\/i>. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Sound of Music Publishing, 1992.<\/p>\n

Larsen, L.E. What went wrong with the People’s Temple? A closer look at Jim Jones and the People’s Temple<\/a><\/em>. Stavanger, Norway: School of Mission and Theology at Stavanger, 2010.<\/p>\n

Kwayana, Eusi<\/a>.\u00a0A New Look at Jonestown: Dimensions from a Guyanese Perspective<\/em>. Los Angeles: CaribHouse, 2016.<\/p>\n

Kilduff, Marshall and Ron Javers. The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana<\/a><\/i>. New York: Bantam, 1978.<\/p>\n

Knerr, M. E. Suicide in Guyana<\/i><\/a>. New York: Belmont Tower Books, 1978.<\/p>\n

Maguire, John and Mary Lee Dunn. Hold Hands and Die: The Incredibly True Story of the Peoples Temple and the Reverend Jim Jones<\/i><\/a>. New York: Dale, 1978.<\/p>\n

McBirnie, W. S. The Untold Story of Jonestown<\/i>. Glendale, Calif.: Community Churches of America, 1979.<\/p>\n

McCoy, Alan W. The Guyana Murders<\/i>. San Francisco: Highland House, 1988.<\/p>\n

Mehan, Chase.\u00a0Jonestown: The Forensic Photos<\/a><\/em>. Independently published, 2022. See reviews by Jason Schwechter<\/a> and Jolene McDonald<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Meiers, Michael. Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence<\/a><\/i>. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Moench, Doug. Big Book of Conspiracies<\/em>. New York: Paradox Press, 1995.<\/p>\n

Nichols, Norma. Pot-Pourri with a Taste of Cult<\/i>. n.p., 1979.<\/p>\n

Nugent, John Peer. White Night: The untold story of what happened before and beyond Jonestown<\/a><\/em>. New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1979.<\/p>\n

Reston, James Jr. and Noah Adams. \u201cFather Cares: The Last of Jonestown.\u201d<\/a> National Public Radio. Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, 1981.<\/p>\n

White, Mel. Deceived<\/i>. Old Tappan, N.J.: Spire Books, 1979.<\/p>\n

Whittle, Thomas G. and Jan Thorpe, \u201cRevisiting the Jonestown Tragedy.\u201d Freedom Magazine<\/i> n.v. (August 1997): 4-11. Available online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Witten, Manley. \u201cGuyana: The Autopsy of Disbelief.\u201d\u00a0Lab World<\/em>\u00a0(March 1979): 14-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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