The Family
by Ed Sanders
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Recounts the Tate-LaBianca murders, offers a profile of Charles Manson and his followers, discusses the origins and influence of Manson and his family, the crimes they committed, and the mysteries surrounding the clan.Tags
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There are two versions of this book. Ed Sanders was sued after the book was published in hard cover and forced to remove all references in future editions to a religious cult known as the Process Church of the Final Judgement or "The Process" that he claims inspired Manson with it's theology of the unity of Christ and Satan. Try to get the hardcover, it's a much more chilling story than the sanitized paperback.
This book started off good, but near the end of the book you get the feeling the writer just wanted to wrap it up.
not well written but very entertaining. uses the word "gobble" with unlikely frequency!
great cover, great line of books (rororo, das neue buch), very courageous book
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I have a long-standing admiration for Ed and his rock group, the Fugs, but I never read "The Family" until this year because when the book first came out, I didn't actually want to hear what it said. Why was Sanders selling out, only to be massively outsold by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter" anyway?...
Ed's style is a mixture of tabloid, stoner, legalese and woolly yarn. The show more events are crazed and gnarly. Heinlein had some science-fiction dream of a killer telepathic sex-cult leader, but in the chaotic reality of Los Angeles, the dream came out stoned and bloody. Moany and groany. Surreal and sleazy.
Sanders really meant to be a poet all along, and his style is the more lapidary at a page per year. show less
Ed's style is a mixture of tabloid, stoner, legalese and woolly yarn. The show more events are crazed and gnarly. Heinlein had some science-fiction dream of a killer telepathic sex-cult leader, but in the chaotic reality of Los Angeles, the dream came out stoned and bloody. Moany and groany. Surreal and sleazy.
Sanders really meant to be a poet all along, and his style is the more lapidary at a page per year. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- The Family : Die Geschichte von Charles Manson und seiner Strand-Buggy-Streitmacht
- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- Charles Manson; Sharon Tate
- Important places
- Beverly Hills, California, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA
- Important events
- Tate-LaBianca Murders
- Related movies
- Charlie Says (2018 | IMDb)
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 364.15230979493 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography North America
- LCC
- HV6248 .M2797 .S25 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Criminal classes
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- 509
- Popularity
- 59,284
- Reviews
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- Languages
- Czech, English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 12
