For readers contemplating the Charles Manson phenomenon, there’s a still-growing library of literature that seeks to explain the how and why behind the bloody killing spree in summer 1969.
To understand the crimes:
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry’s bestseller “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders” is a detailed history originally published in 1974. It’s an account from the perspective of Bugliosi, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who prosecuted Manson and his followers. Bugliosi delves into the case against Manson, but he also strives to strip away the mystique already growing around him, as Robert Kirsch noted in a.
Nuel Emmons’ “Manson in His Own Words,” originally published in 1987, is based on hundreds of hours of interviews and correspondence with Manson over a six-year period. In the book, Manson boasts about the influence he exerts on those still fascinated with him. “Save your sympathy and know that only a body is in prison. At my will, I walk your streets and am right out there among you,” he says in a passage quoted in a Timesby Gary L. Cunningham.
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