LEADER 03258oam 22006494a 450 001 9910794673103321 005 20230807185150.0 010 $a0-87565-785-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011920663 035 $a(OCoLC)1226912187 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse98579 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6587143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6587143 035 $a(OCoLC)1250084684 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011920663 100 $a20201112d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBack to the World$eA Life after Jonestown /$fEugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aFort Worth, Texas :$cTCU Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ[2021] 215 $a1 online resource (1 volume) $cillustrations (black and white) ; 311 $a0-87565-778-8 327 $aA 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. 330 $a"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 $50 bill stashed in his shoe to buy breakfast for himself and a fellow survivor. Returning to California at age twenty-one, Smith faced the daunting challenge of building from scratch a meaningful and self-sufficient life in the American society he thought he had left behind. "My first responsibility as a survivor," he writes, "was not to embarrass my mother or my wife or my child, and to set an example that can't be questioned." Back to the World is the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. Having survived, Smith has hard questions for today's America"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMen$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01015978 606 $aEx-cultists$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00917444 606 $aAfrican American men$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00799236 606 $aJonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978 606 $aMen$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American men$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aEx-cultists$zCalifornia$vBiography 607 $aGuyana$2fast 607 $aCalifornia$2fast 608 $aAutobiographies. 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aAutobiographies. 615 7$aMen. 615 7$aEx-cultists. 615 7$aAfrican American men. 615 0$aJonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. 615 0$aMen 615 0$aAfrican American men 615 0$aEx-cultists 676 $a988.103/2092 B 700 $aSmith$b Eugene$f1957-$01582477 701 $aCasey$b Ethan$f1965-$01582478 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794673103321 996 $aBack to the World$93864919 997 $aUNINA