Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
by Flynn, Daniel J
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- Hardcover
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- 1610171519
- ISBN 13
- 9781610171519
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ISI Books, 2018-10-08. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong. November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of Americaâs first openly gay elected officialsâand one of Jim Jonesâs most vocal supportersâis assassinated in San Franciscoâs City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transformed into a fringe figure, a âfundamentalist Christianâ and a âfascist.â In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the US Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and a US Navy ship named after him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Franciscoâthe hangover after the high of the Summer of Love.
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- Title
- Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
- Author
- Flynn, Daniel J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1610171519
- ISBN 13
- 9781610171519
- Publisher
- ISI Books
- Date Published
- 2018-10-08
- Size
- 6x0x9
- Keywords
- San Francisco; history
- X weight
- 17 oz
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