03258oam 22006494a 450 991079467310332120230807185150.00-87565-785-0(CKB)4100000011920663(OCoLC)1226912187(MdBmJHUP)muse98579(MiAaPQ)EBC6587143(Au-PeEL)EBL6587143(OCoLC)1250084684(EXLCZ)99410000001192066320201112d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBack to the WorldA Life after Jonestown /Eugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey1st ed.Fort Worth, Texas :TCU Press,[2021]©[2021]1 online resource (1 volume) illustrations (black and white) ;0-87565-778-8 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."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 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"--Provided by publisher.Menfast(OCoLC)fst01015978Ex-cultistsfast(OCoLC)fst00917444African American menfast(OCoLC)fst00799236Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978MenCaliforniaBiographyAfrican American menCaliforniaBiographyEx-cultistsCaliforniaBiographyGuyanafastCaliforniafastAutobiographies.Biographies.Autobiographies.Men.Ex-cultists.African American men.Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.MenAfrican American menEx-cultists988.103/2092 BSmith Eugene1957-1582477Casey Ethan1965-1582478MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910794673103321Back to the World3864919UNINA