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Manson
in His Own Words
by Charles Manson, Nuel Emmons
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"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."
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Taming
the Beast : Charles Manson's Life Behind Bars
by Edward George, Dary Matera
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"Edward George, who was Charles Manson's prison
counselor for eight years during the late 1970s and
early '80s, offers an insider's look at the creepy cult
leader's day-to-day life behind bars. Although Charlie
is literally a graybeard now, he's lost none of his
knack for oddball ranting and dark and compelling
personal magnetism. George conveys the riveting persona
of the convicted killer--complex and arcane, by turns
violent and easygoing, and in some ways even sensitive.
In one bizarre incident, Manson, upon discovering a
bird's nest outside his cell window, procures an egg
from the nest to protect it from the prison's cleaning
crews, who routinely swept such nests off the building.
George stumbles upon Charlie expectantly warming the egg
with his hands, hoping for a hatchling to emerge.
"Charles Manson held that egg in his hands for
weeks, cherishing it, talking to it, waiting for that
bird to emerge," George writes. "It never
did." The portrait of Manson that emerges from
Taming the Beast is largely one of a deranged,
eccentric, and even comical man, a man who goes before
parole boards every few years and, like an actor leaping
onstage, performs for his captive audience, then
chuckles about it afterward. Still, the author is
careful to remind readers of the harsher reality of
Manson's past, at one point promising to stick a
"shank into that bastard's black heart" if
Manson ever came after his daughter. Though George
struggles mightily to emphasize Charlie's sociopathic
nature, it becomes obvious very early on in the book
that he has a fairly big soft spot for his former
charge. Manson, it seems, despite being confined, still
has his infamous powers of persuasion after half a life
on ice. --Tjames Madison"
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