Member of the family : my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties

Lake, Dianne, 1953- author.

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"In late 1967, fourteen-year-old Dianne Lake became one of "Charlie's girls," a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson and member of his Family. Joining the group with little more than an old note from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them, the two years that followed were a mixture of sexual manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse, as the harsh realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true natu...

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ISBN:

9780062695574
0062695576

Edition:

First edition

Description:

viii, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Contents:

Part I: Turn on. A Minnesota childhood ; Family matters ; One stray ash ; California ; How to be-in ; Hippies in newsprint ; The note ; Welcome to the Hog Farm ; Someone groovy
Part II: Tune inches The black bus ; We are all one ; Panhandling and postulating ; Snake ; Spahn Ranch ; Beach boy ; A little monkey ; A door closes ; On the edge ; Baking soda biscuits ; Out of sight ; Preaching the White Album ; A simple bag of coins
Part III: Drop out. The witches' brew ; Reclaiming my name ; My day in court

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2475995

Other Authors:

Herman, Deborah, 1958- author

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