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Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown / / Eugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey



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Autore: Smith Eugene <1957-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown / / Eugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Fort Worth, Texas : , : TCU Press, , [2021]
©[2021]
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;
Disciplina: 988.103/2092 B
Soggetto topico: Men
Ex-cultists
African American men
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
Men - California
African American men - California
Ex-cultists - California
Soggetto geografico: Guyana
California
Soggetto genere / forma: Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Altri autori: CaseyEthan <1965->  
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Back to the World  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-87565-785-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910794673103321
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