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Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s assassination
November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall.
This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since.
Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record.
The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become.
In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.”
In life, Harvey Milk outed friends, faked hate crimes, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe.
But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love.
In recounting the fascinating, intersecting lives of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall.
This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since.
Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record.
The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become.
In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.”
In life, Harvey Milk outed friends, faked hate crimes, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe.
But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love.
In recounting the fascinating, intersecting lives of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
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First published October 8, 2018
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June 2, 2019
Meh. I thought this was actually going to reveal new information. Rather than this book, I highly recommend Season of the Witch by David Talbot. This book, which by the way was written more than a decade before Cult City, reveals a lot of the same information about Jones and the connections between many San Francisco politicians, but actually makes an attempt to understand and give context to both the 1960s in San Francisco and individual people's actions.
I never trust a history that seems to be trying too hard to make sure you see an event or a person in the same way as the historian writing it. Flynn's documentation is impeccable, I'm sure, but his interpretation seems highly suspect. He seems more interested in changing Harvey Milk's image than in understanding anything that happened. And he seems overly concerned with people's "misconceptions" about White and Milk and Jones, yet those misconceptions seem confined to early versions of the story. Numerous histories of Peoples Temple have made it clear that the church had Marxist leanings. The earliest biography of Milk (published in 1982) described his outing of Oliver Sipple, and showed that the act wasn't universally approved or other than politically movtivated. Season of the Witch explained White's motivations in detail, including his blue-collar background and Democratic orientation.
Jim Jones was a nut who nonetheless charmed his way into Democratic politicians' good graces and helped them get elected. Harvey Milk was a politician who wasn't always perfect but who was nonetheless an important leader, both in life and in death, in the struggle for gay rights. Dan White was a disturbed man who murdered two people when his personal and professional disappointments proved too much for him to handle. All of these things have been known for some time, and there are many better books than Cult City where you can learn that.
I never trust a history that seems to be trying too hard to make sure you see an event or a person in the same way as the historian writing it. Flynn's documentation is impeccable, I'm sure, but his interpretation seems highly suspect. He seems more interested in changing Harvey Milk's image than in understanding anything that happened. And he seems overly concerned with people's "misconceptions" about White and Milk and Jones, yet those misconceptions seem confined to early versions of the story. Numerous histories of Peoples Temple have made it clear that the church had Marxist leanings. The earliest biography of Milk (published in 1982) described his outing of Oliver Sipple, and showed that the act wasn't universally approved or other than politically movtivated. Season of the Witch explained White's motivations in detail, including his blue-collar background and Democratic orientation.
Jim Jones was a nut who nonetheless charmed his way into Democratic politicians' good graces and helped them get elected. Harvey Milk was a politician who wasn't always perfect but who was nonetheless an important leader, both in life and in death, in the struggle for gay rights. Dan White was a disturbed man who murdered two people when his personal and professional disappointments proved too much for him to handle. All of these things have been known for some time, and there are many better books than Cult City where you can learn that.
August 10, 2019
DNF—I love reading about Jim Jones and the People’s Temple—he’s my favorite cult leader—so I was excited to read this. Sigh. First, the Peoples Temple background was rushed and read like a high school book report. Second, and worse, the author was bound and determined to make a villain of Harvey Milk. Now, I’m not one to canonize people, and Milk wasn’t perfect. But the author was pushing way too hard for the viewpoint. I didn’t find any info that I haven’t read in any other coverage of Jones. Tres disappointing.
October 18, 2018
‘By the 1960s and 1970s, San Francisco took on a darker tone.”
Massachusetts author Daniel J. Flynn has been honored for his previous books – Why The Left Hates America, Blue Collar Intellectuals, A Conservative History of the American Left, The War On Football and Intellectual Morons. He is a senior editor of the American Spectator and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the New York Post, City Journal, and National Review. Now he has published his most controversial book to date – CULT CITY: JIM JONES, HARVEY MILK, AND 10 DAYS THAT SHOOK SAN FRANCISCO.
In this book, very obviously augmented with hours of research and investigation, Daniel presents a horror story more frightening than any contemporary film, and in doing so he brings into focus the real personalities of two men whose names will never be forgotten. One of the many reasons the book is so impressive is Daniel’s writing style, as is evident in the opening chapter – ‘The advertisement billed the December 2 benefit gala as “A Struggle Against Oppression.” Scheduled speakers included rising Assemblyman Willie Brown as the master of ceremonies and funnyman Dick Gregory as the keynote. Supervisor Harvey Milk and other movers and shakers of an oft moved and shaken city crammed their big names into a small font on the flyer. For the bargain of $ 25— and “tax deductible” at that— influence seekers could seek to influence the mighty of a great American city. In addition to mingling with such power brokers as Brown and Milk, they could corner Sheriff Eugene Brown, physician and newspaper publisher Carlton Goodlett, and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver at San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency. And doing well meant doing good. The dinner’s proceeds subsidized the Peoples Temple Medical Program. The Hyatt ballroom remained empty on December 2, 1978. Two weeks earlier, the small staff of the Peoples Temple Medical Program had mixed cyanide with Flavor Aid and administered the poisonous, sugary elixir to hundreds of people in faraway Guyana. The smiling seniors and racial rainbow of children touting the wholesomeness of the agricultural commune in the fundraiser’s promotional literature rotted in piles in the steamy South American jungle. On an airstrip in nearby Port Kaituma, five people, including Congressman Leo Ryan, lay dead, gunned down by Peoples Temple assassins. Others, including future congresswoman Jackie Speier, State Department official Richard Dwyer, and San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Reiterman, nursed bullet wounds. In Guyana’s capital city, a former Harvey Milk campaign volunteer slashed her children’s throats. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrated the murders and suicides of 918 people on November 18, 1978. The man-made cataclysm represented the largest such loss of civilian life in American history until 9/11 and the largest mass suicide of the modern age. Nothing before or after struck Americans as so bizarre. The event shocked the world. But the small world surrounding Peoples Temple predicted it— loudly and repeatedly. Not every utterance from Jonestown’s namesake, after all, proved as cryptic as the one block-quoted on the “Struggle Against Oppression” promotional literature: “We have tasted life based on total equality and now have no desire to live otherwise.”…Just nine days after the live-action horror movie in Guyana, another tragic event shook San Francisco: Supervisor Dan White murdered fellow supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in City Hall. As with the Jonestown massacre, myths cloud our understanding of these assassinations. In life, the assassin served as a protégé of future U.S. senator Dianne Feinstein, a public-employees union activist, and a friend and occasionally an ally of Harvey Milk. He represented blue-collar San Francisco Democrats as a blue-collar San Francisco Democrat. But after murdering fellow Democrats Milk and Moscone, the surely disturbed Dan White morphed into a “disturbed right-wing supervisor.” White’s victims experience a similar treatment of revisionist history. Moscone and Milk, tightly linked to Peoples Temple in life, strangely became untethered from the group in death. Moscone probably owed his election as mayor to Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. As thanks, the mayor appointed Jones to an important city post, making him chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission. Harvey Milk became one of Jones’s most effusive advocates….This book confronts the noble lie. Jones did no wrong in life. Milk proved infallible upon death. The politician and the preacher, a saint and a devil in their afterlives, walked the earth as human beings.’
This style of prose and reportage magnetizes the reader, now able to learn facts not legend. The synopsis provided by Daniel shares the highlights of the drama: ‘The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and ¬dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk outed friends, faked hate crimes, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. ‘
This is an extraordinary book, copiously annotated and indexed, is a must read for all caring people. The truth is out and we must cope. Highly Recommended.
Massachusetts author Daniel J. Flynn has been honored for his previous books – Why The Left Hates America, Blue Collar Intellectuals, A Conservative History of the American Left, The War On Football and Intellectual Morons. He is a senior editor of the American Spectator and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the New York Post, City Journal, and National Review. Now he has published his most controversial book to date – CULT CITY: JIM JONES, HARVEY MILK, AND 10 DAYS THAT SHOOK SAN FRANCISCO.
In this book, very obviously augmented with hours of research and investigation, Daniel presents a horror story more frightening than any contemporary film, and in doing so he brings into focus the real personalities of two men whose names will never be forgotten. One of the many reasons the book is so impressive is Daniel’s writing style, as is evident in the opening chapter – ‘The advertisement billed the December 2 benefit gala as “A Struggle Against Oppression.” Scheduled speakers included rising Assemblyman Willie Brown as the master of ceremonies and funnyman Dick Gregory as the keynote. Supervisor Harvey Milk and other movers and shakers of an oft moved and shaken city crammed their big names into a small font on the flyer. For the bargain of $ 25— and “tax deductible” at that— influence seekers could seek to influence the mighty of a great American city. In addition to mingling with such power brokers as Brown and Milk, they could corner Sheriff Eugene Brown, physician and newspaper publisher Carlton Goodlett, and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver at San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency. And doing well meant doing good. The dinner’s proceeds subsidized the Peoples Temple Medical Program. The Hyatt ballroom remained empty on December 2, 1978. Two weeks earlier, the small staff of the Peoples Temple Medical Program had mixed cyanide with Flavor Aid and administered the poisonous, sugary elixir to hundreds of people in faraway Guyana. The smiling seniors and racial rainbow of children touting the wholesomeness of the agricultural commune in the fundraiser’s promotional literature rotted in piles in the steamy South American jungle. On an airstrip in nearby Port Kaituma, five people, including Congressman Leo Ryan, lay dead, gunned down by Peoples Temple assassins. Others, including future congresswoman Jackie Speier, State Department official Richard Dwyer, and San Francisco Examiner reporter Tim Reiterman, nursed bullet wounds. In Guyana’s capital city, a former Harvey Milk campaign volunteer slashed her children’s throats. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrated the murders and suicides of 918 people on November 18, 1978. The man-made cataclysm represented the largest such loss of civilian life in American history until 9/11 and the largest mass suicide of the modern age. Nothing before or after struck Americans as so bizarre. The event shocked the world. But the small world surrounding Peoples Temple predicted it— loudly and repeatedly. Not every utterance from Jonestown’s namesake, after all, proved as cryptic as the one block-quoted on the “Struggle Against Oppression” promotional literature: “We have tasted life based on total equality and now have no desire to live otherwise.”…Just nine days after the live-action horror movie in Guyana, another tragic event shook San Francisco: Supervisor Dan White murdered fellow supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in City Hall. As with the Jonestown massacre, myths cloud our understanding of these assassinations. In life, the assassin served as a protégé of future U.S. senator Dianne Feinstein, a public-employees union activist, and a friend and occasionally an ally of Harvey Milk. He represented blue-collar San Francisco Democrats as a blue-collar San Francisco Democrat. But after murdering fellow Democrats Milk and Moscone, the surely disturbed Dan White morphed into a “disturbed right-wing supervisor.” White’s victims experience a similar treatment of revisionist history. Moscone and Milk, tightly linked to Peoples Temple in life, strangely became untethered from the group in death. Moscone probably owed his election as mayor to Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. As thanks, the mayor appointed Jones to an important city post, making him chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission. Harvey Milk became one of Jones’s most effusive advocates….This book confronts the noble lie. Jones did no wrong in life. Milk proved infallible upon death. The politician and the preacher, a saint and a devil in their afterlives, walked the earth as human beings.’
This style of prose and reportage magnetizes the reader, now able to learn facts not legend. The synopsis provided by Daniel shares the highlights of the drama: ‘The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and ¬dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk outed friends, faked hate crimes, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. ‘
This is an extraordinary book, copiously annotated and indexed, is a must read for all caring people. The truth is out and we must cope. Highly Recommended.
December 4, 2018
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If someone accuses you of “Drinking the Kool-Aid”, the intention is to be saying that you are following along with an ideology blindly or that you are mindlessly buying into a what someone else wants you to believe.
When you read Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco by Daniel J. Flynn, you will understand why this is incorrect.
Drinking the Kool-Aid is meant to refer to the mass suicide of over 900 people in Guyana, South America, back in November 1978. But, no one at Jonestown drank any Kool-Aid.
That is just a very small part of the distorted information that we got from the news following this event. The news media at that time wanted us to believe that no one saw this coming. If you believe that, you Drank the Kool-Aid.
Enquiring minds wanted to know back then. In fact, The National Enquirer was one of the few media sources that got things right.
We are doomed to repeat this event because those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. Most of us don’t know the true history of the mass suicide. Most of us don’t know that our government had every reason to know what was going on.
Cult City is chock full of information about a series of events and a web of things that combined to make such a thing possible. You will find how history was revised and we have all been forced to drink the Kool-Aid by the media and others.
This book is very eye-opening. It does have multiple uses of The Lord’s Name in vain. Readers are carpet bombed with the F-Bomb and we are exposed to the intimate private lives of Jim Jones and many B-rate politicians and celebrities. We disclose this because our readership is mostly Christian and they want to know this.
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If someone accuses you of “Drinking the Kool-Aid”, the intention is to be saying that you are following along with an ideology blindly or that you are mindlessly buying into a what someone else wants you to believe.
When you read Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco by Daniel J. Flynn, you will understand why this is incorrect.
Drinking the Kool-Aid is meant to refer to the mass suicide of over 900 people in Guyana, South America, back in November 1978. But, no one at Jonestown drank any Kool-Aid.
That is just a very small part of the distorted information that we got from the news following this event. The news media at that time wanted us to believe that no one saw this coming. If you believe that, you Drank the Kool-Aid.
Enquiring minds wanted to know back then. In fact, The National Enquirer was one of the few media sources that got things right.
We are doomed to repeat this event because those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. Most of us don’t know the true history of the mass suicide. Most of us don’t know that our government had every reason to know what was going on.
Cult City is chock full of information about a series of events and a web of things that combined to make such a thing possible. You will find how history was revised and we have all been forced to drink the Kool-Aid by the media and others.
This book is very eye-opening. It does have multiple uses of The Lord’s Name in vain. Readers are carpet bombed with the F-Bomb and we are exposed to the intimate private lives of Jim Jones and many B-rate politicians and celebrities. We disclose this because our readership is mostly Christian and they want to know this.
We were sent a complimentary copy of this book. We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.
We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.
Notice: This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, we may financially benefit from your transaction, at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support.
Manian Debil Productions is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
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September 14, 2020
The main purpose of this book is exposing the relationship between Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple and Harvey Milk as well as other California limousine liberals and the post Guyana tragedy cover up of those connections as well as exposing the fantasy of what Milk has been portrayed as and the reality of the man and his life.
With the stuff about Jones and the Guyana mass suicide it is disturbing and at the same time fascinating but there is not much new to be learned about Jones or the Peoples Temple here that has not already been written elsewhere except for the highlighting of his relationship with the liberal political elites in California.
With Milk this book debunks the total mythology that is put out there by the mass media and the movie that was made about him. Also the same with his murder that was portrayed as some sort of an anti-gay hate crime by the mass media and portrayed Milk as a gay version of Martin Luther King when the truth is his sexuality had nothing to do with his murder. The reality is Milk was, like all Politiçians, a sociopath and human wind sock that did whatever was good for him. The guy was a Goldwater Republican when it was convenient for him and the other extreme when it worked to his advantage.
But the book itself is very well done on one of the many crazy chapters of 1960s and 1970s history in the California bay area.
With the stuff about Jones and the Guyana mass suicide it is disturbing and at the same time fascinating but there is not much new to be learned about Jones or the Peoples Temple here that has not already been written elsewhere except for the highlighting of his relationship with the liberal political elites in California.
With Milk this book debunks the total mythology that is put out there by the mass media and the movie that was made about him. Also the same with his murder that was portrayed as some sort of an anti-gay hate crime by the mass media and portrayed Milk as a gay version of Martin Luther King when the truth is his sexuality had nothing to do with his murder. The reality is Milk was, like all Politiçians, a sociopath and human wind sock that did whatever was good for him. The guy was a Goldwater Republican when it was convenient for him and the other extreme when it worked to his advantage.
But the book itself is very well done on one of the many crazy chapters of 1960s and 1970s history in the California bay area.
May 4, 2021
3.5 stars, I do truly appreciate how this book corrects several misguided popular narratives. Dan White having been recast in recent years as a homophobic right-winger being one of the largest historical fictions I was unaware of. However, I feel like this book got lost for a few chapters in the middle by getting into the minutia of both Harvey Milk and Dan White’s elections and San Francisco politics that could have been better used to more concretely tie Jones to the both the city’s and the nation’s political hierarchy at the time. It was incredibly refreshing to see Jim Jones accurately cast as a “Revolutionary Socialist,” (Jones own words to describe himself, not mine or the author’s), and to see it accurately portrayed that in the end, the tragedy at Jonestown had very little to do with true religion and more to do with a failed political ideology.
November 29, 2018
The author makes a case
Flynn makes a case that Harvey Milk was a villain. That Jim Jones was enabled and abetted by Milk. And thus Harvey Milk has the blood of 900+ humans on his hands. That is the premise of this book. Agree or not, it is thorough.
Flynn makes a case that Harvey Milk was a villain. That Jim Jones was enabled and abetted by Milk. And thus Harvey Milk has the blood of 900+ humans on his hands. That is the premise of this book. Agree or not, it is thorough.
March 31, 2022
Fascinating read about politics in San Francisco and the impact of the local cult community.
June 12, 2020
Amazing book!
February 8, 2019
I've read a handful of explicitly conservative non-fiction over the last year or two and this book falls into that category. The book tells a very interesting story about the parallels and relationships between Harvey Milk and Jim Jones and the way their lives intersected and he's very good when it comes to painting an accurate picture of two men who had a great deal in common, one who was demonized, the other who is now lionized.
I think what irritated me was the heavy handed way in which he makes so many of his points. Rather than trusting his audience to see the hypocrisy, he feels obliged to point it out at every available opportunity. I'd have liked the book a lot more if he'd left us to draw our own conclusions and then made his political points at the end.
I think what irritated me was the heavy handed way in which he makes so many of his points. Rather than trusting his audience to see the hypocrisy, he feels obliged to point it out at every available opportunity. I'd have liked the book a lot more if he'd left us to draw our own conclusions and then made his political points at the end.
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March 29, 2019While the subject matter is incredibly fascinating, this book took me entirely too long to read. Almost a month. There were times where the history got boring but it was a very detailed explanation of how Harvey Milk and Jim Jones got together. I honestly didn’t know that when the Jonestown holocaust happened only nine days would Milk be assassinated. The book is also a reminder that Diane Feinstein has been in politics for way too long.
It’s a fascinating subject with interesting details but read like a boring history book.
It’s a fascinating subject with interesting details but read like a boring history book.
January 14, 2025
Very interesting book about the comradery between San Francisco politicians and Jim Jones. Harvey Milk, Willie Brown; they all cozied up to Jim Jones because Jones could control the votes of his congregation.
August 24, 2020
In reading this rather unpleasant but deeply interesting book, I was struck by the question of whether the ten days that the author writes about with a large amount of setup actually did shake San Francisco nearly enough. I think that San Francisco was shocked by the murders in Jonestown and also by the assassination of Harvey Milk as well as San Francisco's Mayor, but I don't think that the city's mistaken understanding about these matters shook them, because if they had been shaken they might have reflected a bit differently on their politics and thus avoided a well-earned reputation for having among the most corrupt politics and among the most ugly and unpleasant cities of the United States as a whole, a reputation that exists to this day, including concerns about homelessness, the political stranglehold of the Democratic Party over this and many other failing cities, and the dependence of politicians on various corrupt political techniques and operators like Jim Jones. All of this suggests that San Francisco deserves to be thought of as being the home for cults that include leftist Christianity of a sort that encourages a messianic belief in the state or in political leaders who adopt left-wing agendas and support corrupt left-wing candidates. For too long people have thought that the danger from religion in politics only comes from the right, and this book disabuses the reader of such mistaken notions.
This book is a bit more than 200 pages and it is divided into fifteen fairly short chapters that deal mostly with the context of how it is that the death of Jim Jones' revolutionary leftist cult and Harvey Milk were in fact connected by their shared fashion for leftist politics and dark sexuality. The author discusses the origins of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk as coming from other places and seeking in San Francisco a place for reinvention, showing how both were able to build up power in part through each other's encouragement, and how Jim Jones and his believers were a key part in the political coalition that Harvey Milk used to gain power within the corrupt city politics of San Francisco. Eventually, of course, Jim Jones was driven by increasing paranoia into exile and then when faced with the threat of intervention from the United States (and perhaps, in his mind, Guyana), he encouraged a brutal act of revolutionary suicide among first the children and then the adults among his followers. Harvey Milk, on the other hand, found himself viewed as a betrayer by a fellow city politician who resigned from office and tried to unresign unsuccessfully and ended up rather murderous about his frustrated ambitions and being exposed as a quitter, ending with a commitment by the author not to sanitize the facts, unlike so many media accounts which have failed to see the connections between revolutionary leftist religion and corrupt Democratic city politics in San Francisco (and perhaps other places like Portland).
In many ways this book is a strange one that seems both to invite as well as to complicate comparisons between the heady times of the late 1970's and the contemporary political situation. Harvey Milk is shown as being a man who combined a superficial charm and a high degree of political ambition with some disturbing qualities concerning emotionally arrested development and the sort of behavior that would have invited blackmail as well as criminal charges for his fondness for exploiting vulnerable underage boys, some of whom became suicidal after being with him. Likewise, the incestuous relationship that Jim Jones had with the leftist establishment of San Francisco is not something that contemporary politicos and members of the press are keen on reflecting because of their belief that murderous cults must be right-wring rather than left-wing, as Jones' cult was. Likewise, the murder of Harvey Milk and of San Francisco's mayor was again not an act of right-wing political violence but rather the anger of someone who in many ways had been an ally of Milk before the personal and political relationship in San Francisco's city government turned hostile. There are so many ways that this book defies the common understanding of Jim Jones and San Francisco politics, but no obvious relevance to contemporary times except to note that the press lies and that things are remembered amiss because there are agendas in place to mislead people about the more unsettling truths that must be hidden to protect people's reputation even in death.
August 27, 2025
I’m docking a star on this book because for some absolutely inexplicable reasoning, Daniel Flynn completely let Jim Jones’s second in command and late in the game mortal enemy, Tim Stoen, off the hook! Anyone who’s read the Children of Jonestown by Kenneth Wooden or the wild San Francisco survey, The Season of The Witch , knows that Tim Stoen should be incarcerated or should’ve at least served major time. He was responsible for not only the death of his son by essentially signing his young life over to Jim Jones, but he moved and trafficked children, stole from seniors and foster children, moved huge amounts of overseas via money laundering, and God knows what else. All of this is verified. The reason he got away with it was because he was a white male from extreme money and a huge history of being a DA and because others would’ve gone down with him in social services and politics..
When he got his plum appointment with DJ Freitas as assistant DA, then the corruption really began! Daniel Flynn airbrushed that all out! I don’t understand why. If the rest of the book had not been so good, this would be getting only three or even two stars. Perhaps if the author comes onto Goodreads at some point he would like to explain? Season of The Witch covers Stoen as he was, all with verifiable facts.
That said, this book was impossible to put down. After reading the season of the witch, I wanted more of a single focus on the Moscone/Milk assassinations, and Jim Jones and people’s temple. I found out about the book via a very well written piece that the author Daniel J Flynn did about the abysmal naming of the street near City Hall Plaza in San Francisco for Jim Jones, apologist and useful complete idiot, Carlton Goodlet. Knowing that the author might be more conservative than me, gave me pause to believe that there might be some bias woven into the book. While the beginning had a bit of that, the rest of the book didn’t need any bias. The facts are whacked out and unbelievable enough as they are! And honestly, even though it completely destroyed the myth of Saint Harvey Milk, he emerged more human being than before as the Gay saint.
Most of what the majority of people know about Harvey Milk is not real. He was not an ethical, loving community organizer. He was a raconteur and hard ass politician. More of that East Coast transplant, wheeler dealer vibe than easy-going West Coast newcomer. And he defended Jim Jones to the point of hagiography, even writing a letter to President. Carter imploring him to make sure that Jim Jones retained control of a child he’d ostensibly kidnapped and later murdered alongside the other 304 children that were murdered in Jonestown Guyana in November 1978. I do want to warn people who love Harvey milk. You will never see him the same way again but facts are facts. At times I couldn’t believe that this was the same Harvey Milk. But it was, and it doesn’t change the fact that I still admire the man for what he did and I am still very angry that he was murdered and his murderer Dan White did not truly come to justice. Despite the fact, the author kills the myth he has nothing but respect for his subjects.
Dan White emerges as a mentally unstable guy that really didn’t know what he was getting into when he got into politics. He was definitely somebody suited for being a police officer or in the fire department. Instead of the Far right wing paranoid person that we get in the myth, Dan White supported and voted positively on gay issues, housing, and even affirmative action. He was someone with extremely poor impulse control, and he literally did get away with the murders of public officials which should’ve carried at the least life in prison.
I like the style of writing because even though knowing the author is conservative, he stayed very, very balanced and was very fair. This is a great companion with season of the witch.
When he got his plum appointment with DJ Freitas as assistant DA, then the corruption really began! Daniel Flynn airbrushed that all out! I don’t understand why. If the rest of the book had not been so good, this would be getting only three or even two stars. Perhaps if the author comes onto Goodreads at some point he would like to explain? Season of The Witch covers Stoen as he was, all with verifiable facts.
That said, this book was impossible to put down. After reading the season of the witch, I wanted more of a single focus on the Moscone/Milk assassinations, and Jim Jones and people’s temple. I found out about the book via a very well written piece that the author Daniel J Flynn did about the abysmal naming of the street near City Hall Plaza in San Francisco for Jim Jones, apologist and useful complete idiot, Carlton Goodlet. Knowing that the author might be more conservative than me, gave me pause to believe that there might be some bias woven into the book. While the beginning had a bit of that, the rest of the book didn’t need any bias. The facts are whacked out and unbelievable enough as they are! And honestly, even though it completely destroyed the myth of Saint Harvey Milk, he emerged more human being than before as the Gay saint.
Most of what the majority of people know about Harvey Milk is not real. He was not an ethical, loving community organizer. He was a raconteur and hard ass politician. More of that East Coast transplant, wheeler dealer vibe than easy-going West Coast newcomer. And he defended Jim Jones to the point of hagiography, even writing a letter to President. Carter imploring him to make sure that Jim Jones retained control of a child he’d ostensibly kidnapped and later murdered alongside the other 304 children that were murdered in Jonestown Guyana in November 1978. I do want to warn people who love Harvey milk. You will never see him the same way again but facts are facts. At times I couldn’t believe that this was the same Harvey Milk. But it was, and it doesn’t change the fact that I still admire the man for what he did and I am still very angry that he was murdered and his murderer Dan White did not truly come to justice. Despite the fact, the author kills the myth he has nothing but respect for his subjects.
Dan White emerges as a mentally unstable guy that really didn’t know what he was getting into when he got into politics. He was definitely somebody suited for being a police officer or in the fire department. Instead of the Far right wing paranoid person that we get in the myth, Dan White supported and voted positively on gay issues, housing, and even affirmative action. He was someone with extremely poor impulse control, and he literally did get away with the murders of public officials which should’ve carried at the least life in prison.
I like the style of writing because even though knowing the author is conservative, he stayed very, very balanced and was very fair. This is a great companion with season of the witch.
October 8, 2024
One of those ‘truth is stranger than fiction’, especially when popular historical understanding becomes fictional.
So Harvey Milk was not shot by a right-wing extremist, but a fellow politician and fellow Democrat, who voted with Milk on many issues. Sounded like a mental case with severe competition issues who hated being lied to and upstaged, and couldn’t act like an adult. (Since Milk preyed on young men in his quest for self-fulfillment and enjoyed ripping into opponents in print, he didn’t sound like a fully grown adult either. I echo the author’s wish that ideology wouldn’t overshadow actual events with actual eyewitnesses.
And self-appointed ‘Reverend’ Jim Jones, like many spiritual providers preying on parishioners, was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He answered to no one but himself, and required total allegiance- with the help of heavy-handed, gun-toting thugs. He practiced loyalty checks with fake poison runs before he had to run from San Francisco to Guyana. (Even fawning PR from Jane Fonda, Willie Brown, and Milk ran out of runway eventually.)
If it were possible for me to like Dianne Feinstein (by comparison), this book could almost make me ..no, that’s a bridge too far. She just sounds more sane than most of the people described. Given the history of San Francisco, I’m more fond than ever of the ‘Dirty Harry’ movies. I’m glad an undercover cop busted Jim Jones for solicitation of sex at a restroom in a theatre playing a Dirty Harry movie. It’s fitting. Tough times, getting false advertising vibes from a title. First world problems, Jim.
An amazing number of lauded leaders (including JFK) were drug-addled, sex-mad adolescents foisting a nightmare existence on their followers. Took a while for the People’s Temple professed paradise to show its red teeth under the psychedelic color scheme.
Also ironic that the defector group (Gang of Eight) were upset that the socialist ideals of the Marxism professed from Jones’ pulpit was so lacking in purity. Gosh, how could a sex-based focus overshadow the titanic struggle for equality and fraternity?
I’m sad that Senator Leo Ryan, the deep-dive investigator, lost his life finding out the Peoples Temple was yet another ‘save the world’ ideal community turned into hell on earth. He seems to deserve all the good press that Jones and Milk cajoled for, intimidated for, and demanded based on pride and selfishness.
So Harvey Milk was not shot by a right-wing extremist, but a fellow politician and fellow Democrat, who voted with Milk on many issues. Sounded like a mental case with severe competition issues who hated being lied to and upstaged, and couldn’t act like an adult. (Since Milk preyed on young men in his quest for self-fulfillment and enjoyed ripping into opponents in print, he didn’t sound like a fully grown adult either. I echo the author’s wish that ideology wouldn’t overshadow actual events with actual eyewitnesses.
And self-appointed ‘Reverend’ Jim Jones, like many spiritual providers preying on parishioners, was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He answered to no one but himself, and required total allegiance- with the help of heavy-handed, gun-toting thugs. He practiced loyalty checks with fake poison runs before he had to run from San Francisco to Guyana. (Even fawning PR from Jane Fonda, Willie Brown, and Milk ran out of runway eventually.)
If it were possible for me to like Dianne Feinstein (by comparison), this book could almost make me ..no, that’s a bridge too far. She just sounds more sane than most of the people described. Given the history of San Francisco, I’m more fond than ever of the ‘Dirty Harry’ movies. I’m glad an undercover cop busted Jim Jones for solicitation of sex at a restroom in a theatre playing a Dirty Harry movie. It’s fitting. Tough times, getting false advertising vibes from a title. First world problems, Jim.
An amazing number of lauded leaders (including JFK) were drug-addled, sex-mad adolescents foisting a nightmare existence on their followers. Took a while for the People’s Temple professed paradise to show its red teeth under the psychedelic color scheme.
Also ironic that the defector group (Gang of Eight) were upset that the socialist ideals of the Marxism professed from Jones’ pulpit was so lacking in purity. Gosh, how could a sex-based focus overshadow the titanic struggle for equality and fraternity?
I’m sad that Senator Leo Ryan, the deep-dive investigator, lost his life finding out the Peoples Temple was yet another ‘save the world’ ideal community turned into hell on earth. He seems to deserve all the good press that Jones and Milk cajoled for, intimidated for, and demanded based on pride and selfishness.
March 3, 2019
This book challenged everything I thought I knew about events that occurred just days apart in November 1978. I never realized the deep connection between Harvey Milk and Jim Jones, as well as San Francisco Mayor, Moscone. Milk was an openly gay city supervisor, Moscone was Mayor, and Jones was the leader of the 'People's Temple' of Guyana. Many will remember Jones as the Kool-aid serving preacher who took out over 900 of his followers and also had murdered Congressman Leo Ryan and others as they tried to escape. This book draws a clear picture of the deep connection between Jones and Milk and their admiration for each other. The author takes you back and explains how these people were all intricately connected, though the two crimes were separate. Jones had strong support from Milk as well as from Jane Fonda, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, and Willie Brown. None of these people ever apologized for their promotion of Jim Jones and the 'People's Temple' and, in fact, distanced themselves as much as possible from any association.There is some interesting history in the book as well. The author tells of Diane Feinstein's rise to power and her place in San Francisco politics. Remember, this story takes place in the 1970's and being gay was not afforded the acceptance it has today. Feinstein voted against several gay initiatives and at one point spoke of "offensive lifestyles." Oddly, it was Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California, who came out against Proposition 6 which would ban gays from working in California public schools. The initiative was all but a sure thing until Reagan came out strongly against it and defeated the bill. The author does a great job of weaving the trajectory of these two events with many interesting facts that this reader was not aware of. Great read.
March 8, 2022
San Francisco is the city of my birth, and I must say this book did not make me proud of 'the powers that be' in SF during the 70's. I did not realize that People's Temple was located on Geary Street across from what is now Japantown; there is evidently a Post Office there now. However there is no marker to acknowledge the existence of People's Temple, and that is part of Mr. Flynn's point: the influence of Jim Jones upon the city, particularly its movers and shakers, is not something that is happily acknowledged. There were many who saw Mr. Jones as a very gifted leader who instantiated the socialist ideal in the community he led, and his endorsement was sought out by many politicians. The reader of this book will be quite horrified at what went on behind the scenes at People's Temple, even before it moved to Guyana. Flynn shows how many who effectively aided and abetted Jones during his tenure in SF were never called on the carpet and held liable for their support of the cult figure. As for Harvey Milk, Flynn portrays him as a east-coast vagabond who ended up striking 'gold' of sorts in Bay Area politics, and here too Flynn is out to tell the (unflattering) truth about his lifestyle. Interestingly even though he is remembered as a pioneer in terms of gay identity in political leadership in SF, Milk's assassination had nothing to do with this. There are many details in this book that might be rightly categorized as 'gossip' - second-hand salacious surmisings about the various characters: but I think Flynn does achieve his purpose, which is to correct the storyline that Jones was always held under suspicion, and Milk was viewed as thoroughly heroic: the fact of the matter is, the manner of their deaths was highly consequential in how the life and character of each was captured in the popular imagination.
June 25, 2020
Having seen both Milk and the recent documentary on the People's Temple, I can tell you that both movies left out A LOT based on this book.
Flynn has so many eye-opening details here that somehow got lost in time that it will alter anybody's understanding of both events. People's Temple wasn't some fringe cult, but a political machine that elected Milk and Moscone - - which one can imagine might apply to other religious groups.
They didn't suddenly go crazy, they were a psychologically manipulative sex cult (at least some of the time) that practiced the suicide-homicide ritual that eventually did them in. Milk was...not what that movie made him out to be at all. Neither was Dan White. The book doesn't really spell out what his story was, but there's enough in there to speculate. And there's more. Ronald Reagan strangely stuck his neck out to stop an anti-homosexual teacher bill?
SF was definitely a tumultuous place at the time. The book is a great view into one slice of it. Although some sections could really use one more review by an editor to fix it up and remove some purple prose.
Flynn has so many eye-opening details here that somehow got lost in time that it will alter anybody's understanding of both events. People's Temple wasn't some fringe cult, but a political machine that elected Milk and Moscone - - which one can imagine might apply to other religious groups.
They didn't suddenly go crazy, they were a psychologically manipulative sex cult (at least some of the time) that practiced the suicide-homicide ritual that eventually did them in. Milk was...not what that movie made him out to be at all. Neither was Dan White. The book doesn't really spell out what his story was, but there's enough in there to speculate. And there's more. Ronald Reagan strangely stuck his neck out to stop an anti-homosexual teacher bill?
SF was definitely a tumultuous place at the time. The book is a great view into one slice of it. Although some sections could really use one more review by an editor to fix it up and remove some purple prose.
November 21, 2021
For someone who knows nothing about Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and the 70s in San Francisco - but with a deep connection to the city - this is a fascinating book. Intensively researched and delivered compellingly, I enjoyed it a lot. There's a lot of facts and refutations he inputs here about the motivations of several characters that make them very real to me.
I don't think the author achieves a compelling argument here about the relationship Harvey Milk and Jim Jones had. Actually, I don't think he's made an argument for it. I do think he's made an argument for George Moscone's culpability in the Jonestown events, but Milk hardly crosses paths with him and it seems more that he found some political usefulness there - as did everyone else.
I don't think this is the last word on the story by any means, but it has made me more interested in this time in the bay area (and extremely excited for Leonardo DiCaprio's Jim Jones in 2022!)
I don't think the author achieves a compelling argument here about the relationship Harvey Milk and Jim Jones had. Actually, I don't think he's made an argument for it. I do think he's made an argument for George Moscone's culpability in the Jonestown events, but Milk hardly crosses paths with him and it seems more that he found some political usefulness there - as did everyone else.
I don't think this is the last word on the story by any means, but it has made me more interested in this time in the bay area (and extremely excited for Leonardo DiCaprio's Jim Jones in 2022!)
January 15, 2020
I enjoyed the author’s excellent vocabulary... there were many colorful words new to me. (And I don’t mean inappropriate; I mean I am truly impressed by the author’s use of beyond-SAT words.)
I appreciate learning a different, factual portrait of Harvey Milk than the one from the movie, Milk. This was very well researched. The cult leader story and true history is an absolute horror story.
I only give this story two stars, because this book really isn’t my cup of tea, and unfortunately I am doubtful that this work would actually change anyone’s perceptions of the characters and their legacy. I came to this book already sympathetic to the author’s case, but I cynically think potential readers from a different viewpoint would dismiss this book.
I appreciate learning a different, factual portrait of Harvey Milk than the one from the movie, Milk. This was very well researched. The cult leader story and true history is an absolute horror story.
I only give this story two stars, because this book really isn’t my cup of tea, and unfortunately I am doubtful that this work would actually change anyone’s perceptions of the characters and their legacy. I came to this book already sympathetic to the author’s case, but I cynically think potential readers from a different viewpoint would dismiss this book.
January 16, 2022
Very interesting book that feels eerily familiar in many ways - corrupt politicians ignoring problems until they become too big to hide, then rewriting history so it appears more favorable. And yes, this applies to both sides of the aisle. Even the middle, actually.
Just goes to show you we’re not in the darkest day in our country’s history; our day merely rhymes with previous ones.
Four stars instead of five because it could have done with a more careful editor. Too many sentences have repeated words, and not always in an intentional, clever way. It also hammers a few points too many times.
Just goes to show you we’re not in the darkest day in our country’s history; our day merely rhymes with previous ones.
Four stars instead of five because it could have done with a more careful editor. Too many sentences have repeated words, and not always in an intentional, clever way. It also hammers a few points too many times.
April 11, 2019
Well researched book about the machinations of corrupt politics. What can go wrong when politicians and a megamaniacal narcissist promote and cover for each other? Jim Jones, Harvey Milk and Dan White were all part of a sleazy system grasping for power in a town that was already reeling from the instability and revolutionary changes of the 60's. They were all in it for themselves. A sad tale of how the power these three sought destoyed them and 900 innocent souls. This story repeats itself.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 26, 2020
Jim Jones was a socialist and he had a strange political alliance with Harvey Milk. Beyond that the book indulges in a lot of conjecture and pre-suppositions rather than demonstrating an active conspiracy. This book has CITY in the name, and in general it just seems to have the thesis of some stuff was weird in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s and tosses all these characters into a milieu and claims they were related.
July 14, 2019
Troubling read. This did put both the Jonestown tragedy and Harvey Milk in better perspective as well as the corrupt politics that continue to mark San Francisco and California. This would have been a 4-star rating but the electronic version that I read had a number of grammatical and spelling errors. In any case, this book is highly recommended.
October 7, 2021
This was really interesting. the city of San Francisco the Zebra Killers, the Nation of Islam, Dan White, Milk and Jim Jones etc.
A lot of people really supported Jones, one rabid supporter was Milk. Milk was kind of a tool, White was Feinstein protégé and the Police were out of hand. Racial profiling for the Black Muslim Zebra Killers. etc. this book got something for everyone.
A lot of people really supported Jones, one rabid supporter was Milk. Milk was kind of a tool, White was Feinstein protégé and the Police were out of hand. Racial profiling for the Black Muslim Zebra Killers. etc. this book got something for everyone.
December 11, 2018
Excellent book.
A sordid tale discribing the synchronicity of dysfunctional people who became leaders of people in a troubled time in San Francisco. Excellent research, lots of footnotes and sobering reading.
A sordid tale discribing the synchronicity of dysfunctional people who became leaders of people in a troubled time in San Francisco. Excellent research, lots of footnotes and sobering reading.
August 4, 2020
This is a well written and well researched book on an important connection between two deadly events whose connections are usually overlooked... or intentionally hidden from view. Well worth reading.
November 19, 2021
Outstanding
Clear-eyed and well-researched. Flynn is a fine writer who does an excellent job clearing away a host of myths that have grown up around Jonestown and the murder of Harvey Milk.
Clear-eyed and well-researched. Flynn is a fine writer who does an excellent job clearing away a host of myths that have grown up around Jonestown and the murder of Harvey Milk.
September 28, 2025
The author managed to weave together the two narratives very nicely but I wished there was more analysis of the parallels and the history of San Francisco that engendered such people to be drawn to it in the first place.
January 6, 2019
Excellent read as it is a well researched and written. I knew very little about Jonestown and this book sheds a light on how implicit people were in this tragedy.
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