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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Surviving Utopia" is a more autobiographical, less "academic," version of "Love Them to Death," published in March 2017, which Publishers Weekly calls "Stoen's deeply moving memoir." In that book I focused centrally on Jim Jones through 14 stages, as I experienced them. Here, I focus on myself in seeking, defending, opposing, and surviving utopia. I add my early years, and my reflections on the whole experience--psychological, political, and religious. On January 1, 1970, I joined Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, to create a utopia. On November 18, 1978, the utopian Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple became the operative causes of what pollster George Gallup called the "Jonestown story." The "Jonestown story," he said, was "the most widely followed event of 1978." The purpose of this book is to give an insider's personal account of that story, to share what it was like to have a dream smashed by that story, and to express deep gratitude for surviving-through no merit of my own-that story. I was the attorney, enemy, and post-mortem target of James Warren Jones who, on November 18, 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, unleashed-in the name of "love"-terror and death. 918 people would die that day. This ordinary man, Jim Jones, who had an extraordinary rhetorical talent for capturing the souls of kind and decent people, got them to assassinate a US congressman and, incredibly, got them-by the hundreds-to line up and kill themselves and their children. That evening, as my wife Grace and I lay benumbed, on a floor in the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, we knew in n our hearts that one of those victims would be our beloved six-year-old son, John Victor Stoen. "The CIA would have to acknowledge," says Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, "that Jones succeeded where their MK-Ultra program failed in the ultimate control of the human mind." My seeking of utopia began on a Sunday afternoon-August 17, 1969-as I was leaving Black Panther headquarters in San Francisco. I proceeded to make three serious errors leading me into Peoples Temple. They were: anger, the ideology of "total equality," and pragmatism. My defending of utopia commenced on March 2, 1970, when I moved from Berkeley to Redwood Valley to cast my lot with Peoples Temple, and became the "county counsel" for Mendocino County and a pro bono lawyer for Jim Jones. Making Peoples Temple into a showcase model of total equality became a passionate dream. For seven years I aggressively defended Peoples Temple as a true utopian enterprise. During that time Jones became what the Washington Post would later be calling a "West Coast power." My opposing of utopia commenced on February 16, 1977, when I left my job as Head of Special Prosecutions for the San Francisco District Attorneys Office to go live in Jonestown with John Victor. His mother, Grace, was threatening a custody suit, and I had made a promise to protect Jones's paternity access to the child based on a false belief that he was the biological father. On November 18, 1977, I testified in court against Jones. I then went to Guyana to enforce our custody order against Jones, but the government was wired in his favor. The challenge of surviving of utopia commenced on November 18, 1978, when Jim Jones said on his death tape: "Somebody.see that Stoen does not get by with this infamy. He has done the thing he wanted to do. Have us destroyed." His loyalists accused me of manipulating the 1975 San Francisco mayoral election. Jones also issued that day a prophecy and a curse: "We win when we go down. Tim Stoen has nobody else to hate. Then he'll destroy himself." I became deeply depressed by guilt and grief over the death of John Victor. I survived psychologically due to a spiritual experience in April 1988. Still, I had to claw myself back to society due to the media stigma. Finally, in Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Love Them to Death" is the same book as "Marked for Death," published in 2015, but with a new title, new cover, amplifications, new photographs, and back-cover endorsements: "Stoen's deeply moving memoir."--Publishers Weekly; "Buy the Book: The Man Jim Jones Hated Most Speaks. . . . The fascinating book reads, like accounts of the demise of Jonestown itself, as unbelievable but true."--Daniel J. Flynn, The American Spectator; & "A true heartfelt confession that reads like a John Grisham thriller."--Brian McDonough, Writer News. "Love Them to Death" is a memoir of my experiences as the attorney, enemy, and postmortem target of James Warren Jones who, on November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, unleashed-in the name of "love"-terror and death. It tells how this ordinary man, Jim Jones, having captured the souls of kind and decent people, got them to assassinate a US congressman and, incredibly, got them-by the hundreds-to kill themselves and their children. "The mass suicides and murders in Jonestown, Guyana," said pollster George Gallup, "was the most widely followed event of 1978." By then Jim Jones had become a "Molotov cocktail." The container was Jones's absolute power. The flammable liquid was Jones's malignant narcissism. The wick was Jones's genius for mind control. In the end Jim Jones was nothing but evil. "The CIA would have had to acknowledge," said Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, "that Jones succeeded where their MK-Ultra program failed in the ultimate control of the human mind." On January 1, 1970, I joined a utopian movement called Peoples Temple, in order to pursue "Biblical socialism" (Acts 2). I became the pro bono lawyer for Jones for 7 years. Jim Jones eventually became what the "Washington Post" called a "West Coast Power," with a remarkable gift for wining over the most sophisticated people in politics. On November 18, 1977, I testified in court and went to war against Jones. By then, he had moved to Jonestown. I turned on Jones because I'd learned he was denigrating to a five-year-old child, John Victor Stoen then in Jonestown, his mother, Grace. During that one-year war for John Victor, I made two trips to the then "wired" country of Guyana, and in California I braced, every time the doorbell rang, for a shot to the chest. Finally, on that November 18th, the journey took a petrifying turn. Jim Jones killed 907 of his people by cyanide, and orchestrated the deaths, by gunfire at the nearby airstrip, of US congressman Leo Ryan and four others. Among those he took out by the poison was six-year-old John Victor Stoen. Structurally, this book traces the "development" of Jim Jones, as I experienced it from 1967 through 1979, through fourteen stages. On the day he died, Jim Jones exhorted his followers to "see that Stoen does not get by with this infamy." I was accused--falsely, I might add--of manipulating the 1975 San Francisco mayoral election, won by George Moscone over John Barbagelata, and then arranging to become special voter fraud prosecutor to cover up my crime. On that same day Jones made a prophecy: "We win when we go down. Tim Stoen has nobody else to hate. Then he'll destroy himself." It took nine years to undermine that curse. I have three reasons for writing this book. The first is to encourage healthy suspicion of authoritarian power. I want to show how leaders are corrupted by absolute power, and how they use charisma and demagogic oratory to acquire that power. The second reason is to encourage realistic approaches to fighting evil. I want to give evidence for psychiatrist Scott Peck's position that evil people can be dealt with only by "raw power." My third reason is to give hope to people who, like me, have made huge mistakes in their lives. Recovery is possible. After all of my unbelievable mistakes, it is a miracle that I should now find myself alive, s Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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