Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown / / Eugene Smith ; as told to Ethan Casey
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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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| 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->
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-87565-785-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821359203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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