Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2013 • Simon & Schuster

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2013] SIMON & SCHUSTER

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is excellent; only minor trace shelf wear; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book reads like new w/ one tiny spot of discoloration to rear boards.

Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson.

The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today.

Manson puts the killer in the context of his times, 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, relocating to Los Angeles in search of a recording contract. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre race-war obsession, would have lethal consequences as he convinced his followers to commit heinous murders on successive nights.

In addition to stunning revelations about Charles Manson, the book contains family photographs never before published.