Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

3.88 AVERAGE

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whatkatyread87's review against another edition

3.75
challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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clarablackink's review against another edition

3.75
dark mysterious medium-paced

endeeh's review against another edition

4.5
dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

hasnolife11's review against another edition

1.0
I can’t keep track of all these names and dates. I’m not a true crime guy I guess. Add conspiracy to it and I’m totally lost

anotaras's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

bonbonz001's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%
Im was intreeged to lear  about what happened, but unless you know names and faces and about the case indepth its a bunch of names being thrown around. One day ill get back to it.
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kelsaygrace's review against another edition

2.0
adventurous dark informative tense slow-paced

oosahwtf's review against another edition

5.0
informative mysterious medium-paced

notthetennisshoes's review against another edition

3.0
Honestly, wtf did I read? I came for reading more about the Manson murders and left with a whole ass conspiracy of the government. For those who want a nicely tied together ending, don’t read this. But if you’re cool with having more questions then answers, go ahead and put this on your tbr.

hooliaquoolia's review against another edition

3.0
informative medium-paced
 This was a wild ride. MKUltra, the Kennedy assassination, LSD, communism, hippies, all circling around the most infamous murders of the 20th century...the book certainly doesn't shy away from its title. But however densely researched, and however much new material the author uncovered, it stops short on delivering any smoking guns. And while it's easy to believe that perhaps the people surrounding Manson, including the law enforcement officials who investigated, arrested, prosecuted and confined him, were not walking the straight and narrow, it's harder for me to stretch that belief into embracing a theory of MKUltra creating or influencing Manson. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence here, and it leaves me questioning the official story and all parties involved, but it leads me to believe that there was a mess of intrigue around Manson, not a single, vast, coordinated conspiracy.

The audiobook version was good, but perhaps this is one to better enjoy in print.