Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People

“One of the points that I’ve picked up from reading about conspiracy theory over the years is that despite what some people think, it is not a harmless parlor game. It’s a very dangerous form of belief that can have dangerous and terrible consequences in the real world…Jonestown is a far more terrible, large-scale tragedy. One of the beauties of Tim Reiterman’s book is that he demonstrates how conspiracy theory contributed to Jim Jones’s decline. To begin with, Jones was more or less a garden variety con man. He used to do simple confidence tricks to impress his followers.” Read more...

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