The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion by Ed Sanders [BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1971]

The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion by Ed Sanders

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1971] E.P. DUTTON & CO

Hardcover with dust jacket.

Dust jacket is in very nice shape with some general shelf / edge wear.  Some fading along spine and tanning to inner panels. 

Book itself is very good.  Cover is clean and binding is tight.   Foxing along top of pages [see last photo], which otherwise read good as new with a bit of old book smell.  

In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least nine people were murdered, among them Sharon Tate, the young, beautiful, pregnant, actress and wife of Roman Polanski. Ed Sanders' unnerving and detailed look at the horror dealt by Manson and his followers is a classic of the true-crime genre. The Family was originally published in 1971 and remains the most meticulously researched account of the most notorious murders of the 1960s.

Using firsthand accounts from some of the family's infamous members, including the wizard himself, Sanders examines not only the origins and legacy of Manson and his family, but also the mysteries that persist. Completely revised and updated, this edition features 25 harrowing black and white photos from the investigation. "One of the best-researched, best-written, thoroughly-constructed, and eminently significant books of our times…. A masterpiece."—Boston Phoenix  - Bookshop Apocalypse