Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with amazing new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars” (People).

More than forty years back Charles Manson and his mostly feminine commune killed 9 people, included in this the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It had been the culmination of a criminal career that writer Jeff Guinn traces back again to Manson’s childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister about Manson: THE LIFE SPAN and Times of Charles Manson and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members from the Manson family members have provided new information about Manson’s existence. Guinn has produced discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one individual near the scene of the crime was spared.

Manson puts the killer in the context of the turbulent later sixties, an era of competition riots and street protests when power in all its forms was under siege. Guinn shows us how Manson created and processed his message to match the times, persuading baffled young women (and some guys) that he had the solutions to their problems. At the same time he used these to pursue his long-standing musical ambitions. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre race-war obsession, would have lethal effects.

Guinn’s publication is a “tour de force of the biography…Manson stands like a definitive function: very important to students of criminology, human behavior, popular culture, music, psychopathology, and sociopathology…and compulsively readable” (Ann Guideline, The New York Times Publication Review).