Product Description

The shocking confessions of "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (- Rolling Stone magazine) as told Nuel Emmons, who knew him as a youth in custody, and later crossed paths with him on the outside and back in jail.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53110 in Books
• Published on: 1988-05-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Review
"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

"Gives us a portrait close to the truth" --New York Times Book Review

"The book finally diminishes the Manson mystique. For that, credit goes to 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

Customer Reviews

A book so unique & rarely seen.
The best study of mankind, is man (it's said)
Charles Manson is here being exposed naked almost.
Readable and coherent, yet abstract thoughts make a lot of sense, when taking everything into consideration here.
It's often wrongly assumed by some reviewers that his always rationalising his crimes, I bet you would too?
Extremely open as he is, we hear the tales of Manson here revealed. Just study all material of TV conducted interviews, his drawing obvious parallels with a smear of sardonic wrath along his words; it's both pure and tragic at the same time.

There is nothing much to gain for him no more, except maintaining him self to certain ambivalent point, a valid point indeed! (a Supernatural cult leader) a typical stigma he was dubbed by the media, who afterwards call every word of his ``INSANE``

No hoax, but told to people who might have lived another life and does not cope with the moral of such diversity. His not even trying to paint a heroic picture of him self. I can recommend this book to anyone without conform and corrupted values from society, anyone who can think for them selves!
It's obvious this is a part of the American experience to me. Or the uncontrolled chaos this world thus possess!

What are you waiting for? Buy.

I can recommend - The Gates of Janus (Serial killing and its analysis, by the Moors Murderer `Ian Brady`

If you want to read a perhaps more sophisticated view from another point of view.

But I highly appreciate Manson for putting it straight in an excellent way.
Don't worry Charlie, I can handle it. It all makes sense this more you talk openly about it.
What really bother me are peoples libel moral always has to attack people for standing up, even behind bars till they die, we shall only hear the truth from others? I would assume that the best entangled goodies are staying with the murder and his persona. Unfortunately this purchase of books is rarely seen. Despite the police and society trying to act out all normal and best sheltered from what they really produce and enhance mentally unto people.

mansons own words???
This book claims it is Charles Mansons real story although the author also says that the final decision about was included was his not Mansons.However it does in greater depth what the other books do not.It looks at his early formative years and how Mansons personality developed.There are many people out there some of them ex "family" mambers, who still support the idea that he was a charismatic leader and innocent of all charges. This book shows clearly that he was not only involved in planning the murders but that he actively killed several people himself thus dispelling the myth of the martyr once and for all. It is also another signpost for society, who will once again ignore it, that if you brutilise children and sanction institutionalised abuse then sooner or later they will come back to haunt you.If you have read the more sensationalised accounts of the murders this book is a more balanced account although leaving the murders to the last section and possibly minimising them somewhat. The most telling sentence for me and one to send a chill up all your spines is where Manson says," I can't clear anything up on Shea without being a snitch but I will say......someplace out there in that society he (the DA) protects so well, he has left several killers to prowl the streets.

an up-close account of a disturbed and fascinating man
This book began with the childhood of Manson and the numerous institutions he's been in and out of throughout his life. It eliminates hype and sheds light on the truth of the madman behind the mask and gives a personal account of how experiences led him in and out of institutions for the duration of his life.