The Resource Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski
Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski
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The item Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories. Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong--taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown's end still affects their lives decades later. What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful--of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Days in November
- Lost voices
- List of interviews
- Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history
- Nobody was paying attention
- I was his son
- My button was fear
- Jonestown vortex
- A godly life
- A man of his word
- The air they breathed
- I've been to the shadows
- Until we meet again
- Take the city today
- Too black
- Homicide is suicide
- We all participated
- Sole survivor
- Hundreds of kids
- This is big
- Waylaid
- Stigmata
- The dream
- To whom much is given
- Sixty-seven cents
- Nefarious
- We were rising
- The basis of a book
- Beyond truth
- It's no mystery
- The promised land
- What a place for them
- Exodus
- That's Jonestown
- The revolution
- Death is real
- Second chance
- The ones who got away
- The known dead
- My children are there
- Conspiracist
- The ones who got away
- Undetermined
- Something to gain
- Evergreen
- I won't say anniversary
- A bittersweet gift
- After
- The 918 deaths of November 18, 1978
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780816681730
- Label
- Stories from Jonestown
- Title
- Stories from Jonestown
- Statement of responsibility
- Leigh Fondakowski
- Subject
-
- Cults
- Cults -- California -- History -- 20th century
- Cults -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Guyana
- HISTORY -- Latin America | South America
- HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
- 1900-1999
- Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
- Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
- Peoples Temple
- Peoples Temple
- History
- California
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories. Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong--taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown's end still affects their lives decades later. What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful--of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fondakowski, Leigh
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Peoples Temple
- Jones, Jim
- Jones, Jim
- Peoples Temple
- Cults
- Cults
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- Cults
- California
- Guyana
- Label
- Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Days in November -- Lost voices -- List of interviews -- Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history -- Nobody was paying attention -- I was his son -- My button was fear -- Jonestown vortex -- A godly life -- A man of his word -- The air they breathed -- I've been to the shadows -- Until we meet again -- Take the city today -- Too black -- Homicide is suicide -- We all participated -- Sole survivor -- Hundreds of kids -- This is big -- Waylaid -- Stigmata -- The dream -- To whom much is given -- Sixty-seven cents -- Nefarious -- We were rising -- The basis of a book -- Beyond truth -- It's no mystery -- The promised land -- What a place for them -- Exodus -- That's Jonestown -- The revolution -- Death is real -- Second chance -- The ones who got away -- The known dead -- My children are there -- Conspiracist -- The ones who got away -- Undetermined -- Something to gain -- Evergreen -- I won't say anniversary -- A bittersweet gift -- After -- The 918 deaths of November 18, 1978 -- Acknowledgments -- Index
- Control code
- ocn826685373
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816681730
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt2357bs
- 704a3288-76b8-46d0-a0b3-dc869fe59284
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)826685373
- Label
- Stories from Jonestown, Leigh Fondakowski
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Days in November -- Lost voices -- List of interviews -- Collect all the tapes, all the writing, all the history -- Nobody was paying attention -- I was his son -- My button was fear -- Jonestown vortex -- A godly life -- A man of his word -- The air they breathed -- I've been to the shadows -- Until we meet again -- Take the city today -- Too black -- Homicide is suicide -- We all participated -- Sole survivor -- Hundreds of kids -- This is big -- Waylaid -- Stigmata -- The dream -- To whom much is given -- Sixty-seven cents -- Nefarious -- We were rising -- The basis of a book -- Beyond truth -- It's no mystery -- The promised land -- What a place for them -- Exodus -- That's Jonestown -- The revolution -- Death is real -- Second chance -- The ones who got away -- The known dead -- My children are there -- Conspiracist -- The ones who got away -- Undetermined -- Something to gain -- Evergreen -- I won't say anniversary -- A bittersweet gift -- After -- The 918 deaths of November 18, 1978 -- Acknowledgments -- Index
- Control code
- ocn826685373
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816681730
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt2357bs
- 704a3288-76b8-46d0-a0b3-dc869fe59284
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)826685373
Subject
- Cults
- Cults -- California -- History -- 20th century
- Cults -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Guyana
- HISTORY -- Latin America | South America
- HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
- 1900-1999
- Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
- Jones, Jim, 1931-1978
- Peoples Temple
- Peoples Temple
- History
- California
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