"A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
As Jones\'s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers leane.
He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice.
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. "A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant" ( The New York Times Book Review )