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In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life…
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This book is a true, firsthand account of Dianne Lake, a teenage member of the Manson family cult that horrifically murdered people in the 1960s while attempting to start a race war.
I found the book hard to put down for its insights into the mind of a young girl abandoned by her parents who found acceptance by a charming yet psychotic man and his band of adoring, troubled sycophants. This book also put the turbulent 60s into perspective.
Growing up in the sixties, I was disturbed and frightened by the discord in society, perhaps not unlike society today. People…
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