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UNINA9910821359203321 |
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Autore |
Smith Eugene <1957-> |
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Titolo |
Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown / / Eugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey |
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Fort Worth, Texas : , : TCU Press, , [2021] |
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©[2021] |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ; |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Men |
Ex-cultists |
African American men |
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978 |
Men - California |
African American men - California |
Ex-cultists - California |
Autobiographies. |
Biographies. |
Guyana |
California |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A Note on Words and Pictures -- My Road to Jonestown -- The Whole World Thinks We're Nuts -- Nothing to Lose -- Choosing to Engage -- Allowed to Speak Out -- Welcome to Jonestown -- Surviving Survival -- Aftermath -- Too Busy to Grieve -- Learning Processes -- Back to the World -- Small World -- Stepping Out -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Listen to the Record -- Appendix: Eugene Smith's FBI file. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Repatriated by the US authorities on New Year's Eve, he broke a $50 bill stashed in his shoe to buy breakfast for himself and a fellow survivor. Returning to California at age twenty-one, Smith faced the daunting |
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challenge of building from scratch a meaningful and self-sufficient life in the American society he thought he had left behind. "My first responsibility as a survivor," he writes, "was not to embarrass my mother or my wife or my child, and to set an example that can't be questioned." Back to the World is the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. Having survived, Smith has hard questions for today's America"-- |
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