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After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing on new information, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the definitive story of how this ordinary delinquent became a murderer.

Mansonhelps us understand what obsessed him and, most terrifying of all, how he managed to persuade others to kill. Guinn interviewed Manson's sister and cousin, neither of whom has 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 on the property was spared. There are even photographs of Manson's childhood and youth that have never previouslybeen seen outside private family albums.

Putting Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the Sixties, Guinn shows how Manson represented the dark side of a generation. He came to Los Angeles hoping to get a recording contract, and the murders were directly related to his musical ambitions, although he cloaked them in a bizarre race-war theory. He was, in the words of one person who knew him, just like many other rock star wannabes-except that he was a killer.

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"Manson" is not simply a biography of a killer and a cultist. It's a history of American culture from the Great Depression to the close of the 20th century. It's the dirty boogie in four-four time, a fascinating study of greed, mind control, celebriphilia, sex, narcotics, racism, and the misuse of power. I lived in South Los Angeles when many of the events in this book took place. No one has told the story as accurately as Jeff Guinn. It's the story of Nixon and Johnson, Martin Luther King, Vietnam, the SDS, the Black Panthers, the acid culture, and a nation coming apart at the seams. From the first page to the last, I could hardly put it down. Hang on, reader. This is a rip-roaring ride you won't forget. --James Lee Burke

[A] brawny, deep-digging biography that's much more riveting than might be expected. . . . Mr. Guinn is fascinating in his use of hindsight, and it allows him a more probing view of his subject than earlier biographers had. . . . Steadily surprising. --Janet Maslin "The New York Times "

Brilliant. Written with deep insight and in seamless, fluid prose, Guinn s "Manson "expands the story of the cult leader into something far beyond the shocking story we're used to. The best book about Manson that I ve read . . . and I think I ve read them all. --Jeffrey Deaver

"[A] riveting, almost Dickensian narrative. . . . four stars."--Judith Newman "People "

[A] tour-de-force of a biography. . . . Vincent Bugliosi s book "Helter Skelter" led me to believe there was nothing more to learn. . . . I was wrong. . . . ["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 "

"Guinn has managed against all odds to offer a fresh take and a worthy complement to the first-hand immediacy of [Vincent] Bugliosi's" Helter Skelter". . . . Offers new insight to those who lived through that turbulent era, and provides essential context to those who didn't. What emerges is a grim but highly compelling portrait of a 'lifelong social predator' who was 'always the wrong man in the right place at the right time.'"--Daniel Stashower "The Washington Post "

Jeff Guinn takes the reader on a fascinating, chilling visit to a dark and decadent time in American history, all the while maintaining a laser focus on the era s most recognizable face of evil. A gifted writer and master researcher, Guinn explores the depths of Charles Manson s twisted psyche in a brilliant effort that dramatically raises the bar on the true crime genre. --Carlton Stowers, two-time Edgar winner for Best Fact Crime

"Splendid, comprehensively researched. . . . [Guinn] has given us an American nightmare from which we have not yet fully awoken."--Ariel Gonzalez "The Miami Herald "

""Manson" is a book impossible to put down, the details so palpable that the sense of being a part of each scene is almost overwhelming. . . . Guinn manages something much more than a true-crime book. Filled with the trampled hopes and broken dreams of those who gave their lives to a sociopath, "Manson" is an American tragedy."--Michael E. Young "Dallas Morning News "

"Sometimes a book is so good that the reviewer does not know where to begin. It doesn't happen often, but this is one of those times. . . . Jeff Guinn has produced not only the best biography of Charles Manson, but the best study of American true crime since Victoria Lincoln's "A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight. . . . "[A] consistently superb book. . . . Flawless."--Florence King "National Review "
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Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of the three books in 'The Christmas Chronicles,' is an award-winning journalist and writer

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  • PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 0857208942
  • ISBN 13 9780857208941
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages512
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