![]() ![]() The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. ![]() Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials-and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters-is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Description: In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong. ![]()
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