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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Contributor(s): Bugliosi, Vincent (Author), Gentry, Curt (Author)

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ISBN: 0393322238     ISBN-13: 9780393322231
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2001
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Annotation: The #1 bestselling true crime book ever, this revised edition tells what really happened in the murders carried out by the Manson family. Taking a look at the man, the method and the madness, the book now features a new Afterword. of photos.
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BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 364.152
LCCN: 94020957
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (1.20 lbs) 736 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Chronological Period - 1950-1999
- Chronological Period - 1970's
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his family of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi. The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers...these elements make for a true crime classic. Helter Skelter is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of The New Republic, a social document of rare importance.


Contributor Bio(s): Bugliosi, Vincent: - Vincent Bugliosi (1934--2015), was the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, Outrage, and other #1 bestselling books.Gentry, Curt: - Curt Gentry (1931-2014), an Edgar winner, was the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and co-author of Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi.
 
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