Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History

In this superb cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of Jonestown--why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a nation, our ideals, our practices, and the tension of modern culture

Author: John R. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/28/2004
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.32w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780765805874

About the Author
Hall, John R.: -

John R. Hall is director of the Center for History, Society, and Culture at the University of California, Davis and has also taught sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan and The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon.