Review: The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
By Ardi Alspach
When people hear the name Jim Jones, I think it’s fair to say that most would also think immediately of suicide by Kool-Aid. In November of 1978, 909 people—304 of them children—died of poisoning in Jonestown, Guyana. All were members of Jim Jones’s religious group, the Peoples Temple. Jeff Guinn’s Edgar Award-nominated work, The Road…
