Jeff Guinn

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was active in the civil rights movement. Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to California and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. Jeff Guinn examines Jones's life, from his affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to the jungles...

With dramatic flair, Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swash-buckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these “public enemies” into celebrities-much like the cinema gangsters of the time.

"The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record about the poor decisions of their commanders...

Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the Indian battle at Adobe Walls, journeyed to the Arizona Territory with one goal: to win Gabrielle Tirrito back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped on orders from crooked St. Louis businessman Rupert Douglass. Cash, once married to his troubled daughter, fled the city when she died of an accidental overdose and Douglass had...

In this delightful follow-up to Jeff Guinn’s "The Autobiography of Santa Claus,” listeners hear the tale of jolly ol’ Mrs. Claus and how she saved Christmas! Children, parents and entire families will enjoy this holiday classic!

"Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation under Pershing's command and brought together the Army, National Guard, and the Texas Rangers--who were little more than organized vigilantes with a...