The Complete Authoritative Account of Manson
SANDERS, Ed. The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. St. Albans: Panther Books.1973.
8vo. Photographic card wrappers with yellow lettering to spine; pp. [x], 348; creasing to spine and rubbing to corners, general fading to edges with foxing to endpapers and prelimineries; very good.
In the summer of 1969, Charles Manson instructed his followers or 'disciples' to brutually kill seven people, including the pregnant wife of Roman Polanski, the actress Sharon Tate. Prior to the murders, he had formed a commune in the California desert in which he acted as the lead guru.
New York Times Book Review introduced The Family as, ""The first complete, authoritative account of the career of Charles Manson. A terrifying book.". The book remains one of the classics of the true crime genre, as well as being arguably the most meticulously researched examination of the murders of August 1969 which Ed Sanders undertook at his own "considerable personal risk" (blurb).
Ed Sanders was christened "a leader of New York's Other Culture" by Life Magazine, and was featured on the February 1967 cover of the issue. He founded both the Peace Eye Bookstore and established the iconic Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts as well as the American rock band The Fugs. He is also the reicpient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Notorious for supporting the agenda of the Beat poets and the rest of the countercultural movement of the 1960's, Sander's played an incredibly crucial part in advancing investigative poetry, being responsible for several biographies composed in verse, such as Chekhov (1995) and The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg (2000). Three years following this publication of The Family, Sanders wrote the manifesto Investigative Poetry in 1976.
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