{"id":29451,"date":"2013-07-25T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29451"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:36:07","slug":"scheeressplash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29451","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Lives<\/em> Is Published"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"07-10\"<\/a>Julia Scheeres\u2019 long-awaited book on Jonestown and Peoples Temple \u2013 entitled A Thousand Lives<\/em> \u2013 was published in October 2011. Published by Simon & Schuster, the book promises to be the best-selling book on the subject since Deborah Layton\u2019s book Seductive Poison<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A contributor to the jonestown report<\/em> for several years while she worked on the book, Julia\u2019s reflections upon completion of the book are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The jonestown report<\/em> solicited reviews from different segments of its readership. Those reviews include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Search of the Grander Scale<\/a>, by Kathy Tropp Barbour
\n\u2022 A Thousand Lives <\/em>A Painful and Disturbing Read<\/a>, by Annie Dawid
\n\u2022 Rewriting Jonestown<\/a>, by Katherine Hill
\n\u2022 Scheeres Book Offers Understanding of November 18<\/a>, by Sylvia Marciniak
\n\u2022 The Pieces Still Missing<\/a>, by Rikke Wettendorff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reviews during the first weeks after publication include those in:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>
\n\u2022 The New York Times<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Wall Street Journal<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n\u2022 Berkeleyside<\/a>, which describes itself as “Berkeley, California’s independently owned local news site.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pre-publication reviews appeared in Kirkus Reviews<\/a>, Publishers Weekly<\/a> (which gave the work a starred review), Chocolate & Croissants<\/a> and GoodReads.<\/p>\n

The book was also the subject of a pre-publication column by Scott James in The Bay Citizen<\/em> which also appeared in the August 12, 2011 edition<\/a> of The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Scheeres\u2019 long-awaited book on Jonestown and Peoples Temple \u2013 entitled A Thousand Lives \u2013 was published in October 2011. Published by Simon & Schuster, the book promises to be the best-selling book on the subject since Deborah Layton\u2019s book Seductive Poison. A contributor to the jonestown report for several years while she worked on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29487,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29451"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134260,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29451\/revisions\/134260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}