Manson The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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Erscheinungsdatum
06.08.2013
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Simon + Schuster LLCSeitenzahl
512 (Printausgabe)
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29567 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9781451645187
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bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: "A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars" (People).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 during thin 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, 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).
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Drugs, crimes and helter skelter.
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Though the crimes happened in the sixties, the one who orchestrated them is still known today, the notorious Charles Manson. This book retells his life that led to the most gruesome murder around that time.
It would be too facile to claim that Manson’s traumatic childhood represents the sole reason for his criminal career. Not everyone with a complicated childhood ends up as a criminal.
For me unbelievable to understand is how manipulative Charles Manson was, and all the people he tried to exploit merely for his benefit and ambitions.
Charles Manson appeared in the precise place at the right time, with people extremely receptive to the belief in a worthier life and the faith in Manson himself. That only he can offer them the solution to a purified life. I think those women would have done anything for him, to satisfy him even if it caused death.
Only the part with the trial I found a little long-winded.
On the whole, the author provides an excellent insight into Charlie Manson’s life. Ultimately, I wondered if Manson had not lived in the hippie era, how his life would have been. I guess we will never know.
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