Six Years With God: Life Inside Jim Jones' People's Temple

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 319 pages
• Published by: A & W Pub May 1979
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0894790463
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0894790461

Reader Reviews
This book is astounding. I have been doing research on People's Temple for awhile now, and pretty much thought I understood the inside workings of this cult. I was very wrong. Six Years With God gives the reader a serious look at Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. I could not put this book down. Jeannie Mills (May she rest in peace)brings us into Peoples Temple like no other. You join the cult with her and her husband. You attend services, you approve of Jim Jones like they did, you question Peoples Temple the same way they do, and most of all you decide to leave with Jeannie Mills, realizing that like them you joined a lie. I was shocked to read about the abuse, manipulation, and the ability of Jim Jones to make everyone believe what he was doing was for the Cause and Human Rights. When he stomped on the very Cause he was working towards. I was sadden to read about the murders and disappearance of some members. I was frightened to read that as a member there was a point in time when you just couldn't leave. How you would be tormented by others through letters, stalkings, and robbery. I was disheartened to learn that many were lied to about giving up their homes, insurances, and other property to Peoples Temple. This book answered every question I had and I no longer wondered why and how. I understood that the motivation behind Peoples Temple was not about helping but about power. I was concerned to find out that Jeannie Mills and her husband and daughter were murdered a years after this book was published. I think they knew they were going to die anyway and needed to spread the word and let the truth out. Even former members who are teary eye on television speaking about they were sad it didn't work out. Thank God it did not. The book reads like a wonderful film. I recommend this book to everyone who wants a real picture of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Comment | | (Report this)