Raven, Tim Reiterman
Raven, Tim Reiterman
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Raven
The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People

Author: Tim Reiterman

Narrator: Mitch Horowitz

Unabridged: 29 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/04/2017


Synopsis

The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback.

Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978.

This PEN Award–winning work explores the ideals-gone-wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America. Reiterman’s reportage clarifies enduring misperceptions of the character and motives of Jim Jones, the reasons why people followed him, and the important truth that many of those who perished at Jonestown were victims of mass murder rather than suicide.This widely sought work is restored to print after many years with a new preface by the author, as well as the more than sixty-five rare photographs from the original volume.

About The Author

Tim Reiterman is a prizewinning journalist who extensively covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. He was wounded in the Guyanese jungle airstrip attack that killed a U.S. congressman, plus three reporters, and a Peoples Temple defector. A longtime writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, Reiterman worked for the past eight years as Northern California News Editor for the Associated Press and now heads AP’s global environmental reporting team. Reiterman originally published Raven in 1982. His collaborator John Jacobs was a widely respected journalist who died in 2000


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stefani on December 29, 2009

In case you weren't aware, Jim Jones was one crazy televangelist motherf****, who led over 900 members of his People's Temple Church to commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide laced Flavor-Aid (yes, that's right, it was generic Kool-Aid)in the late 70's. Yes, this happened a long, long time ago, but......more

Goodreads review by J.H. on July 28, 2020

I've read probably close to a dozen books on Jonestown, and this was the best (and by far the most thorough). Tim Reiterman, one of the reporters shot during the ambush at the Guyana airstrip that triggered the Jonestown tragedy, is an excellent writer who told the story of the Peoples Temple through......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 16, 2009

Tim Reiterman was one of the journalists who accompanied Congressman Leo Ryan to Jonestown in November of 1978. His book not only examines what happened there, but goes back to the childhood of Jim Jones and the beginnings of the movement known as the Peoples Temple so as to "capture the lure of the......more

Goodreads review by Zella on November 26, 2018

Reading this book over the Thanksgiving weekend made me eternally thankful for never having met Jim Jones. Reiterman does excellent research and is an engaging writer. Jeff Guinn's Road to Jonestown still gets my vote for most fascinating Jonestown book, but Reiterman includes a lot of details I don......more


Quotes

“The definitive account of the Jonestown massacre; Reiterman was among a group of journalists, concerned relatives and congressional aides to accompany Congressman Leo Ryan on the ill-fated journey to Guyana to survey Jonestown.” –Rolling Stone
 
“The seminal book on the story of Jonestown.” –Associated Press
 
“Unquestionably emerges as the most valuable book on Jonestown to date…Every piece of the puzzle is here.”—David Evanier, National Review
 
“An extraordinary inquiry into the individual pathology of Jim Jones…To assemble this portrait obviously required staggering research. The writing is sensitive and lucid. The result is a document which will illumine a dark corner of our era.”—Daniel Schorr
 
“After reading Raven, there should be no more questions…A tour de force on the Rev. James Jones and the events that led his 900 disciples to drink poisoned punch on Nov. 18, 1978.” —Charlie Frush, The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“This stands as the definitive history …carefully compiled and completely horrifying.” —Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle