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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

byTom O'Neill

A journalist’s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI’s involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Drawing on archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, the narrative gives Chaos a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the charles manson, the cia, and the secret history of the sixties becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within history and political science. Chaos ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Publication date

June 23, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

528

ISBN

9780316477543