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    Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
    Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
    Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
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    Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    Written by Jeffrey Melnick

    Narrated by Tom Parks

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    "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for close to fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. Even now, it is almost impossible to discuss the sixties, teenage runaways, sexuality, drugs, music, California, and even the concept of family without referencing Manson and his "girls."

    Not just another history of Charles Manson, Creepy Crawling explores how the Family weren't so much outsiders but emblematic of the Los Angeles counterculture freak scene, and how Manson worked to connect himself to the mainstream of the time. Ever since they spent two nights killing seven residents of Los Angeles--what we now know as the "Tate-LaBianca murders--the Manson family has rarely slipped from the American radar for long. From Emma Cline's The Girls to the recent TV show Aquarius, the family continues to find an audience. What is it about Charles Manson and his family that captivates us still? Author Jeffrey Melnick sets out to answer this question in this fascinating and compulsively readable cultural history of the Family and their influence from 1969 to the present.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9781543680089
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    Jeffrey Melnick

    Jeffrey Melnick has been thinking about the Manson Family since first encountering the book and mini-series Helter Skelter in the 1970s. Melnick is a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of 9/11 Culture: America Under Construction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Black-Jewish Relations on Trial (University Press of Mississippi, 2000), and A Right to Sing the Blues (Harvard University Press, 1999). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    • 5/5
      This is an outstandingly researched cultural history of not only the Manson family murders but also the late 1960s & early 1970s in the US. The author’s attention to the counterculture, music, film, and popular political discourses of the period are especially strong.
    • 4/5
      Why are we still so interested in the Manson murders after 50 years? The author writes an interesting history of the U.S. during the 60's and his explanation of this fascination. Very descriptive information and especially the Los Angeles area.