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Back to the World : A Life after Jonestown /

"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 Californi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Eugene, 1957- (Author)
Other Authors: Casey, Ethan, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations (black and white) ;
ISBN:9780875657851