| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Smith, Eugene, 1957-
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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.
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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978. |
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Peoples Temple -- Biography.
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Peoples Temple. |
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Biographies.
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Jones, Jim, 1931-1978. |
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Smith, Eugene, 1957- |
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Ex-cultists -- California -- Biography.
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Ex-cultists. |
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California. |
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African American men -- California -- Biography.
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African American men. |
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Men -- California -- Biography.
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Men. |
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Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
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Jonestown Mass Suicide (Jonestown, Guyana : 1978) |
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Guyana. |
| Chronological Term |
1978 |
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Electronic books.
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collective biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Men. |
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Casey, Ethan, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Eugene, 1957- Back to the world. Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021] 9780875657783 (DLC) 2020051363 |
| ISBN |
9780875657851 (electronic book) |
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0875657850 (electronic book) |
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9780875657783 (paperback) |
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