Raven: The Untold Story of Reverend Jim Jones and His People - Hardcover

Reiterman, Tom; Jacobs, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525241361 ISBN 13: 9780525241362

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1982

Synopsis

An inside account of the Peoples Temple and the rise and fall of the Reverend Jim Jones offers eyewitness reports of the final days at Jonestown

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Review:

"The definitive account of the Jonestown massacre; Reiterman was among a group of journalists, concerned relatives and congressional aides to accompany Congressman Leo Ryan on the ill-fated journey to Guyana to survey Jonestown." -Rolling Stone

"The seminal book on the story of Jonestown." -Associated Press

"Unquestionably emerges as the most valuable book on Jonestown to date...Every piece of the puzzle is here."--David Evanier, National Review

"An extraordinary inquiry into the individual pathology of Jim Jones...To assemble this portrait obviously required staggering research. The writing is sensitive and lucid. The result is a document which will illumine a dark corner of our era."--Daniel Schorr

"After reading Raven, there should be no more questions...A tour de force on the Rev. James Jones and the events that led his 900 disciples to drink poisoned punch on Nov. 18, 1978." --Charlie Frush, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"This stands as the definitive history ...carefully compiled and completely horrifying." --Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Tim Reiterman is a prizewinning journalist who extensively covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. He was wounded in the Guyanese jungle airstrip attack that killed a U.S. congressman, plus three reporters, and a Peoples Temple defector. A longtime writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, Reiterman worked for the past eight years as Northern California News Editor for the Associated Press and now heads AP’s global environmental reporting team. Reiterman originally published Raven in 1982. His collaborator John Jacobs was a widely respected journalist who died in 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0525241361
• ISBN 13: 9780525241362
• Binding: Hardcover