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This blog written by Jeff Brailey was downloaded on 13 October 2018 from http:\/\/novemberghosts.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/jonestown-bibliography.html<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, May 20, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Jonestown Bibliography<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is only one book out of the 33 that have been written about Jonestown, that takes the reader to the scene of mass death and graphically describes the clean-up and return of the remains of 914 Americans to the USA. It’s the first book on this list, highlighted in red.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brailey, Jeff<\/span>
\nThe Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana<\/em>.<\/span>
\nSan Antonio: J & J Publishers, 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chidester, David
\nSalvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and Jonestown<\/a>
\nBloomington: University of Indiana Press, c1988<\/p>\n

Feinsod, Ethan
\nAwake in a Nightmare: Jonestown the Only Eyewitness Account<\/a><\/i>.
\nNew York: W. W. Norton, 1981<\/p>\n

Hall, John R.
\nGone from the promised land: Jonestown in American cultural history
\nNew Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, c1987<\/p>\n

Kahalas, Laurie Efrein
\nSnake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown<\/em>.
\nNew York: Red Robin Press, 1998<\/p>\n

Kern, Phil and Doug Wead.
\nPeople’s Temple, Peoples Tomb<\/a><\/em>.
\nPlainfield N.J.: Logos International, 1979.<\/p>\n

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

Klineman, George
\nThe Cult that Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple<\/i><\/a>
\nNew York : Putnam, c1980<\/p>\n

Krause, Charles A.
\nGuyana massacre : the eyewitness account
\nNew York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, c1978<\/p>\n

Lane, Mark.
\nThe Strongest Poison<\/em><\/a>.
\nNew York: Hawthorn, 1980<\/p>\n

Layton, Deborah
\nSeductive poison: a Jonestown survivor’s story of life and death in the Peoples Temple.
\nNew York : Anchor Books, 1998<\/p>\n

Levi, Ken
\nViolence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones’ People’s Temple Movement<\/a><\/i>. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982<\/p>\n

Maaga, Mary McCormick.
\nHearing the Voices of Jonestown<\/i><\/a>
\nSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1998<\/p>\n

Melton, J. Gordon
\nPeoples Temple and Jim Jones: Broadening Our Perspective<\/em>.
\nNew York: Garland, 1990.<\/p>\n

Mills, Jeannie
\nSix Years with God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones\u2019s Peoples Temple<\/i><\/a>
\nNew York : A & W Publishers, [1979]<\/p>\n

Moore, Rebecca
\nA Sympathetic History of Jonestown: The Moore Family Involvement in the Peoples Temple<\/em><\/a>. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985<\/p>\n

Moore, Rebecca
\nThe Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family 1970\u20131985<\/em><\/a>.
\nLewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986<\/p>\n

Moore, Rebecca.
\nIn Defense of Peoples Temple<\/em><\/a>.
\nLewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Moore, Rebecca, Anthony B. Pinn and Mary R. Sawyer, eds.
\nPeoples Temple and Black Religion in America<\/a><\/i>.
\nBloomington: University of Indiana, 2004<\/p>\n

Nugent, John Peer
\n White Night<\/a><\/em>.
\nNew York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1979<\/p>\n

Parker, Pat
\nJonestown and Other Madness<\/em>.
\nIthaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1985<\/p>\n

Reiterman, Tim
\nRaven : the untold story of the Rev. Jim Jones and his people
\nNew York : Dutton, c1982<\/p>\n

Reston, James, Jr.
\nOur Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones<\/i><\/a>.
\nNew York: Times Books, 1981<\/p>\n

Rose, Steve
\nJesus and Jim Jones: Behind Jonestown<\/a><\/i>.
\nNew York: The Pilgrim Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Stephenson, Denice
\nDear People: Remembering Jonestown<\/a><\/i>.
\nBerkeley: Heyday Books, 2005.<\/p>\n

Thielmann, Bonnie
\nThe Broken God<\/a><\/i>
\nElgin, Ill. : D. C. Cook, c1979<\/p>\n

Thrash, Catherine
\nThe Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana<\/em><\/a>
\nIndianapolis, Ind. : M. Towne, 1995<\/p>\n

U.S. Committee on Foreign Affairs
\nThe Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy<\/em>. U.S. House of Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979<\/p>\n

U.S. Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing
\nThe Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, Peoples Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy<\/em>. U.S. House of Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979<\/p>\n

Wessinger, Catherine
\nHow the Millennium Comes Violently<\/a><\/em>.
\nSyracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998<\/p>\n

Wessinger, Catherine Lowman.
\nHow the millennium comes violently: from Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate.
\nNew York : Seven Bridges Press, c2000.<\/p>\n

Wooden, Kenneth
\nThe Children of Jonestown<\/em><\/a>
\nNew York : McGraw-Hill, c1981<\/p>\n

Yee, Min S.
\nIn My Father\u2019s House: The Story of the Layton Family and the Reverend Jim Jones<\/i><\/a>
\nNew York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1981<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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