Manson In His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of "The Most Dangerous Man Alive"

Manson, Charles: as told to Nuel Emmons

ISBN 10: 0394555589 / ISBN 13: 9780394555584

Published by Grove Press, New York, 1986

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. 232 pages with photographs. Manson's story, distilled from seven years of inteviews and examinations of his correspondence, provides sobering insight into the making of a criminal mind. Not price clipped. Other than a touch of foxing to the front endpapers this is, A near fine dustjacket over a near fine book.

Seller Inventory # 4678

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manson In His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of "The Most Dangerous Man Alive"
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394555589
• ISBN 13: 9780394555584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Distilled from hundreds of hours of interviews, Manson's story reveals an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, and provides grim insight into the making of a criminal mind. 16 pages of photos.

Review

The shocking confessions of the most dangerous man alive.” Rolling Stone

Compelling and chilling.” Baltimore Evening Sun

I couldn’t put it down.” Liz Smith

Disturbingly hypnotic.” Vogue

Compulsively readable. . . . Manson can’t ever succeed in being paroled out of that cell, not as long as people with any sense at all can read this book.” William S. Burroughs

A glimpse of part of the American experience that is rarely described from the inside. . . . It compels both interest and horror.” The Washington Post

Gives us a portrait close to the truth.” The New York Times Book Review

The book finally diminishes the Manson mystique. For that, credit goes to the co-author Nuel Emmons, [who] gives Manson room to reveal himself without voodoo hype. The result is an explanation of Manson’s crimes that, for the first time, feels convincing.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

Provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a truly dangerous human being.” Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Reads like a sordid but often gripping picaresque novel.” Louisville Courier-Journal

These words’ are the essence behind the horror of the tragedy: cold, calculated, hard facts told exactly the way it was from the beginning. . . . Effectively captures the disturbed mind of Manson and gives us a better understanding of the complexity of a violent criminal.” Rave Reviews