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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Kindle Edition

by Tom O'Neill (Author), Dan Piepenbring (Other Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.
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  1. Tom O'Neill

    Tom O'Neill

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    Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties was published by Little, Brown in the summer of 2019 (paperback in the summer of 2020).

    CHAOS is available in the United Kingdom (paperback title: Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders) and has been translated into Spanish, Polish and will soon be available in Russian.

    To see original documents, video clips of archival material and to listen to selected audio excerpts of author’s interviews with subjects from the book, please go to author's website or social media pages:

    Website: tom-oneill.org

    Instagram: chaoscharlesmanson

    Facebook: ChaosTheBook

    Twitter: chaosmansonbook

    Email: trmo@aol.com

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    Dan Piepenbring

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    Dan Piepenbring (email: piepenbring@protonmail.com) is a writer and editor in New York. He collaborated with Prince on the musician’s memoir, "The Beautiful Ones" (Spiegel & Grau, October 2019). A #1 New York Times best-seller, the book was named one of the best of 2019 by The Washington Post and The Guardian. An excerpt of Piepenbring’s introduction appeared in The New Yorker.

    With Tom O’Neill, he cowrote "CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" (Little, Brown; June 2019). An excerpt appeared on The Intercept.

    From 2014 to 2017, Piepenbring edited The Paris Review Daily. He is an advisory editor at the magazine. He’s also worked as a staff writer at BonAppetit.com, an assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a creative executive at Scott Rudin Productions, and a researcher at the Institute for the Future of the Book.

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