06-07-2013, 04:08 AM
You are not hijacking it since this is going into my biography of Bugliosi chapter in the book.
Yes that is the book.
Its really an interesting read and I am about 230 pages into it.
He is really an original thinker. But as you can see, when he goes out of his metier, he makes unfounded statements. Like that crap about Sebring, MM and Kennedy.
So I have to be careful about what I use since the book is only lightly footnoted.
But I will say this, a good portion of his material is corroborated in the Ed Sanders book, The Family. Like the Joel Rostau murder.
THe other thing is, by examining Manson's music career, he makes mincemeat out of Bugliosi's thesis. Because, get this: Manson hated the Beatles.
He modeled his music on a mixture of prison chain gang folk and country. The guys he liked were people like Woody Guthrie and Lefty Frizzell. Manson even hated Presley since he thought the Jailhouse Rock stuff was phony and showy.
This sticks a spear into Bugliosi's whole thesis, which I always thought was sci fi anyway.
Yes that is the book.
Its really an interesting read and I am about 230 pages into it.
He is really an original thinker. But as you can see, when he goes out of his metier, he makes unfounded statements. Like that crap about Sebring, MM and Kennedy.
So I have to be careful about what I use since the book is only lightly footnoted.
But I will say this, a good portion of his material is corroborated in the Ed Sanders book, The Family. Like the Joel Rostau murder.
THe other thing is, by examining Manson's music career, he makes mincemeat out of Bugliosi's thesis. Because, get this: Manson hated the Beatles.
He modeled his music on a mixture of prison chain gang folk and country. The guys he liked were people like Woody Guthrie and Lefty Frizzell. Manson even hated Presley since he thought the Jailhouse Rock stuff was phony and showy.
This sticks a spear into Bugliosi's whole thesis, which I always thought was sci fi anyway.