Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family by Melnick, Jeffrey

Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

50 years after the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson and the Manson Family continue to haunt and...
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Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family by Melnick, Jeffrey

Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

$50.18

Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

$50.18
Author: Jeffrey Melnick
Format: Paperback
Language: English
50 years after the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson and the Manson Family continue to haunt and fascinate America. No crime or criminal has touched the social, political, or cultural life of America in the same way.

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 fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. Even now, it is almost impossible to discuss the sixties, teenage runaways, sexuality, drugs, music, California, or even the concept of family without referencing Manson and his girls.

Not another Charles Manson history, Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl explores how the Family weren't so much outsiders as 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 TV show Aquarius, as well as two major films in 2019, including Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the family continues to rivet America. 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. Previously published in hardcover under the title Creepy Crawling this paperback edition has a new epilogue.

Author: Jeffrey Melnick
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 07/23/2019
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781948924764

About the Author
Jeffrey Melnick has been thinking about the Manson Family since first encountering the book and miniseries 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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