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Love and Terror : The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders.
Based upon newly released archival material of case transcripts, 'Love and Terror' is a major new history of the Manon murders. 'Love and Terror' is the is the first work of history to make use of the archive.
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- ISBN: 9781804298077
- Physical Description: 352 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Verso Books, 2026.
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| General Note: | CO |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers |
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A major new history of the Manson murders, an infamous twentieth century criminal cases and defining moment of the American countercultural 1960's
In August 9-10, 1969, ex-convict, musician, and charismatic leader Charles Manson ordered members of his countercultural âfamilyâ to kill some of Hollywood's wealthy, white, âbeautiful people.â He also told them to leave clues that would implicate black radicals, in hopes of thereby triggering an apocalyptic race war. Rather than a race war, however, the violence only unleashed terror. Once âthe familyâ had been named as suspects and then as the âlove and terror cultâ, the case placed the entire counterculture under suspicion and came to mean, in line with a famous sentence handed down by Joan Didion in The White Album, the end of the Sixties.
Based upon newly released archival material of case transcripts, Love and Terror presents the Manson case as an exemplary site for historical scholarship. The book shows how the standard story of the Manson murders came to be told the way it was, excavating its fragmented sources and then tracing the way these were arrangedâin the media and in courtâinto the official version of events. Based on years of empirical research, Love and Terror presents the Manson murders as a prism of American culture, and as an event best understood in the context of global avant-gardist movements and revolutionary violence.
