Charles Manson: The Man Who Murdered the Sixties

Charles Manson, a recently paroled man, stumbled into San Francisco in 1967, where he posed as a musician-come-guru-come-Christ-figure and built a commune cult of hippies, mostly troubled young women. Author and former journalism professor David J Krajicek seeks to uncover the motives behind the four-week killing spree that claimed seven lives.

The book includes an introduction to the 1960s counterculture and an in-depth profiles of Manson’s followers. It gives breakdowns of each murder, including diary accounts, interviews, and legal testimonies from the killers and Manson’s account of the events with insight into his manipulations and psychology. Set against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, civil rights movement, race riots, space exploration, and rock music, this story is the tragic end of Flower Power.

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