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They left America for the jungles of Guyana to start out an improved life. Yet what started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, closing in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978. In A 1000 Lives, the New York Times best-selling memoirist Julia Scheeres traces the fates of five those who used Jim Jones to SOUTH USA as they battled to first build their paradise, and then make it through it. Each travelled for different reasons - some were drawn to Jones for his intensifying attitudes towards racial equality, others were dazzled by his says to be a faith healer. But once in Guyana, Jones' medication addiction, mental decay, and intimate depredations quickly eroded the idealistic community. Because of this groundbreaking publication, Scheeres analyzed more than 50,000 webpages of recently released documents that the FBI accumulated from the camp after the massacre - including diaries, crop studies, and letters that were never delivered home - as well as hundreds of audiotapes of Jones responding to his group. Scheeres's own experience at a religious boot camp in the Dominican Republic, complete in her memorable debut memoir Jesus Land, gives her unique information into this chilling tale. Haunting and vividly written, A 1000 Lives is a story of blind commitment and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, searing loss.
