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    Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
    Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
    Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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    Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

    Written by Jeff Guinn

    Narrated by Jim Frangione

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    The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars” (People).

    More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff Guinn traces back to Manson’s childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson family have provided new information about Manson’s life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person near the scene of the crime was spared.

    Manson puts the killer in the context of the turbulent late sixties, an era of race riots and street protests when authority in all its forms was under siege. Guinn shows us how Manson created and refined his message to fit the times, persuading confused young women (and a few men) that he had the solutions to their problems. At the same time he used them to pursue his long-standing musical ambitions. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre race-war obsession, would have lethal consequences.

    Guinn’s book is a “tour de force of a biography…Manson stands as a definitive work: important for students of criminology, human behavior, popular culture, music, psychopathology, and sociopathology…and compulsively readable” (Ann Rule, The New York Times Book Review).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781797100234
    Author

    Jeff Guinn

    Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together, The Last Gunfight, Manson, The Road to Jonestown, War on the Border, and Waco. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

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      Really, really good. I'm in my early fifties, and have been interested in true crime and forensic psychology since my twenties. I think I read Helter Skelter and saw the movie before then. So I thought I'd parsed pretty much all there was to parse about the Manson story. But this book provided some deeper insights that allowed me to understand more deeply what created and what motivated Charles Manson, and those who followed him.