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Jonestown as a Perverse Utopia: A “Greedy Institution” in the Jungle  

Rose Laub Coser and Lewis Coser ▪ Spring 1979

For 20 days, until December 8, the Jonestown horror story made first-page news in the New York Times. In the course of five hours, 911 adults and children were killed or killed themselves. There had been no threat on their …



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