Our Father Who Art in Hell: The Life and Death of Jim Jones
by James Reston Jr.
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Author: James Reston Jr.Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-05
ISBN: 0595167438
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: IUniverse
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Book Review: THE book on Jonestown, Jim Jones and People's Temple
Summary: 5 Stars
James Reston's "Our Father Who Art In Hell" is a well-written book that I consider THE book on Jim Jones, Jonestown and People's Temple. He has a very descriptive writing style that sets the various scenes not only physically, but emotionally.
What I really enjoyed about the book is how he layers the goings on throughout. By now, we all know the story of Jones' "Church" moving from Indiana to Ukiah to San Francisco and eventually to Guyana. Each step along the way, he flashes forward and backward to emphasize different points he tries to make throughout the book. The book does follow a somewhat chronological order, and it really hooked me from page one.
The only issue that I have with the book is through no fault of Reston's. Since the book initial publication, new information has been exposed through the Freedom of Information Act to disprove some of the facts Reston uses in the book, but when he wrote it, those were the facts that were provided. For example, he tells of how the keyboard player lightly plays a "death derge" during the final hours of Jonestown. Well, years later, audio experts declared the music heard on the top was simply music previously recorded on the tape at a higher speed. The tapes used in Jonestown were often re-used and there was some bleed-over effect. And since the music was recorded at a much higher speed than the "death tape" it sounds very slow and drawn out.
All in all, this is an outstanding book. I highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning or learning more about the events that took place in the jungles of Guyuna on that fateful day of Nov. 18, 1978.
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