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Six Years With God: Life Inside Jim Jones' People's Temple
Published in Hardcover by A & W Pub (1979)
Author: Jeannie Mills
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Riveting, inside story of the world of Jim Jones
I couldn't stop reading this book.Mrs.Mills gave a detailed account of her six years in the People's Temple.It was sad to hear her personal stories of some of the children that died at Jonestown.If you ever find this book, buy it!
I can't understand why its out of print. Sadly in early 1980, several months after the book was released,Mrs.Mills and her husband Al were found shot to death in their home.Their daughter Daphne was also shot.Daphne lived a few days in the hospital and then died.All 3 had been members of the Temple .Their murders are still unsolved.
I wish the book would be reprinted so it would be easier for people to find and buy.

Misplaced Idealism
Jeannie Mills was a big-hearted woman who would take people into her home at the drop of a hat. The People's Temple seemed to provide an avenue through which she could share her love of humanity. Needless to say, it was big mistake. Jones used her sterling qualities as he used the thousand or so others who joined his Temple. Mills tells a bizarre tale of cruelty, rip offs and insanity. Accepting the belief that self-sacrifice was more important than self-esteem, she and others gave up more and more to Jones' "cause" which turned out to be world domination for Jones (as he revealed to them). The book makes an interesting companion piece to Deborah Layton's book, "Seductive Poison." Too bad it's out of print.


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