Inspiration

I am embarrassed to say that I was unfamiliar with Jackie Speier, author of Undaunted:  surviving Jonestown, summoning courage and fighting back.  What makes this especially embarrassing is that she is a US Representative, a woman of faith and has a very accomplished past, present and future.  This was such a great book and I can thank my dear friend for telling me about it and I guess I can also credit an incident that pretty much scarred me for life. 
Sometime after December 4 in 1978 I saw this at my grandparent's house and read the article.  TV news wasn't like it was today and I didn't know about Jonestown, before or after the mass killing on November 18 of that year.  Plus I was 7. 
It was my memory of this article and this horrific event that made me want to read the book and the book is not just about Jonestown, not at all, and I am so glad because I really, really am glad to have read this book.  Rep. Speier is a true role model and I listened to the book and she read it which was even more inspiring.  It is another hopeful book for dark times.
While the book is so much more than the title, which to me, made it seem like it would be mostly about Jonestown, I think it was a good idea to have Jonestown in the title because it may draw some readers that way and it is so worth it.