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Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy, by Shiva Naipaul. Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 336 pages.
"The first serious account of the issues involvedand shows the inevitability of Jonestown´s end. It is more than a remarkable documentation of the ideas and milieu which shaped this end. It is the pilgrimage of one man who unflinchingly knocks on the door of survivors, defectors, and critics to see how Jones gained and held the allegiance of his followers... Naipaul is too compassionate to judge, too honest in his reactions to be seduced by the rethoric of self-delusion... Penetrating the rumors of brainwashing, charismatic evil geniuses, and CIA conspiracies, he reveals [how] the root cause of the tragedy lay in the assumption that everything can bel black and white." The Daily Telegraph