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Article: SEDUCTIVE POISON: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple.(Review)
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- The Nation
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- February 1, 1999
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SEDUCTIVE POISON: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple. By Deborah Layton. Anchor. 309 pp. $23.95.
The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, revealed that yet another cult had embraced the idea of using mass death to make a statement of faith. The Denver-based Concerned Christians, who hoped their action would evoke the Second Coming of Christ, joined ranks with the Heaven's Gate comet-following suicides in California in 1997, the Solar Temple adherents in France and Canada in 1995 and the besieged Branch ...