American Experience

Brailey, Jeffrey. Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana. San Antonio, Texas: J&J Publishers, 1998.

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Revised Edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Feinsod, Ethan. Awake in Nightmare: Jonestown: The Only Eyewitness Account. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.

Hall, John R. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1987.

Harding, Vincent. The Other American Revolution. 2nd Edition. University of California and the Institute of the Black World, 1982.

Kahalas, Laurie Efrein. Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown. New York: Red Robin Press, 1998.

Kilduff, Marshall and Ron Javers. Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the Massacre in Guyana. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

Krause, Charles A. with Laurence M. Stern, Richard Harwood. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account. New York: Berkeley Books, 1978.

Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

Maaga, Mary McCormick. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown: Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Mills, Jeannie. Six Years With God: Life Inside Jim Jones’ People’s Temple. New York: A&W Publishers, 1979.

Moore, Rebecca. Jonestown letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family, 1970-1985. Lewiston/Queenston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.

Moore, Rebecca, Anthony B. Pinn and Mary R. Sawyer. Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Naipaul, Shiva. Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy. New York: Simon & Shuster,1982.

Nugent, John Peer. White Night: The True Story of What Happened Before – And After – Jonestown. New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., 1979.

Reiterman, Tim with John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People. New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc. 1982.

Reston, James, Jr. Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones. New York: Times Books, 1981.

Schaer, Roland, Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, ed. Utopia. New York: The New York Public Library/Oxford University Press, 2000.

Schwartz, Harvey. Dialogues with Forgotten Voices. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Smith, Richard Candida, ed. Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.

Stephenson, Denice, ed. Dear People: Remembering Jonestown. San Francisco: California Historical Society Press and Heyday Books, 2005.

Sutherland, Fraser. Jonestown. Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Inc., 1996.

Thrash, Catherine (Hyacinth) and Marian K. Towne. The Onliest Alive: Surviving Jonestown. Indianapolis, Indiana: M. Towne, 1995.

Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw Hill, 1981.

Yee, Min S. and Thomas N. Layton. In My Father’s House. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.