{"product_id":"love-and-terror-the-helter-skelter-history-of-the-manson-murders-9781804298077","title":"Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MAJOR NEW STUDY OF THE MANSON MURDERS, SITUATING THE INFAMOUS CRIMINAL CASE AT A FULCRUM MOMENT IN HISTORY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn August 1969, members of charismatic leader Charles Manson's countercultural \"family\" mur­dered some of Hollywood's \"beautiful people,\" most famously Sharon Tate, eight and a half months pregnant at the time. The killers left be­hind evidence intended to implicate Black radi­cals and to trigger an apocalyptic race war. What happened instead was that the gruesome murders placed the entire counterculture un-der suspicion and then came to mean, in Joan Didion's formulation, the end of the sixties. They have been a cornerstone of the true crime genre ever since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on newly released archival material of case transcripts, \u003ci\u003eLove and Terror \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the Manson case as an exemplary site for historical scholarship. The book shows how the standard story of the murders came to be told the way it was. In place of this shopworn narrative, Clau­dia Verhoeven presents a kaleidoscopic history at the center of which is a far stranger portrait of Manson, the man who became the ultimate murder mastermind in the American mythos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on years of investigative research, \u003ci\u003eLove and Terror \u003c\/i\u003erewrites the Manson murders as a prism of American culture, an event framed by global avant-gardist movements and revolu­tionary violence, and an early sign of our age of spectacle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis history \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003econfused, tumultuous, and pell-mell; it is carnival-esque; and it is a downward spiral into terror that, however, is simultaneously thrilling and repetitively compulsive, which is why the song's refrain about the repeat experience of going up and down the helter skelter is also an apt metaphor for the endless retelling of the murders and the never-ending produc­tivity of the Manson industrial complex\/culture industry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Verhoeven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 5.92w x 1.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804298077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Verhoeven\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. She received a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from UCLA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Claudia Verhoeven \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48397161660573,"sku":"9781804298077","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d30a9976-43e4-486d-8184-313683101d01.jpg?v=1781074635","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/love-and-terror-the-helter-skelter-history-of-the-manson-murders-9781804298077","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}