Loudspeaker Never Slept

Jonestown is usually remembered through its final, horrifying hours. But the catastrophe of November 18, 1978, was built slowly—through heat, hunger, surveillance, public humiliation, forced labor, manufactured emergencies, and the voice of Jim Jones entering every corner of daily life.The Loudspeaker Never Slept reconstructs the settlement as a living system of coercion. Drawing on survivor testi...