Tag: US history

  • After the Prophet: Leigh Fondakowski’s Stories from Jonestown

    After the Prophet: Leigh Fondakowski’s Stories from Jonestown

    The paradox of utopias is that while their failure is assured, their appeal is eternal. 800 years ago, tens of thousands of ordinary people left their homes, their families, and the innumerable small ties which made up their lives to march on Jerusalem and retake it in the name of God, in the deadly mass…