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In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid,
psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal
family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least
nine people were murdered, among them Sharon Tate, the young,
beautiful, pregnant, actress and wife of Roman Polanski. Ed
Sanders' unnerving and detailed look at the horror dealt by Manson
and his followers is a classic of the true-crime genre. The Family
was originally published in 1971 and remains the most meticulously
researched account of the most notorious murders of the 1960s.
Using firsthand accounts from some of the family's infamous
members, including the wizard himself, Sanders examines not only
the origins and legacy of Manson and his family, but also the
mysteries that persist. Completely revised and updated, this
edition features 25 harrowing black and white photos from the
investigation. "One of the best-researched, best-written,
thoroughly-constructed, and eminently significant books of our
times...A masterpiece."--Boston Phoenix
"Chekhov" brings the art of poetic biography to its full,
booklength expression -- Sanders' practice of investigative poetry
unlaying both the life of one of the greatest writers and the
turbulent history of pre-Revolutionary Russia, ever on the edge of
Europe, the bloody wave of pogroms and anti-Semitic persecutions
which marked the times of the great Russian master playwright,
story writer and physician Anton Chekhov.
Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the
disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he
published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic
tradition, Sanders presents the most thorough look ever into the
heartbreaking story of Sharon Tate, the iconic actress who found
love, fame, and ultimately tragedy during her all-too-brief life.
Sharon Tate: A Life traces Sharon's path from beauty queen to
budding young actress: her early love affairs, her romance with and
marriage to director Roman Polanski, and the excitement of the
glamorous life she had always sought- all set against the
background of the turbulent 1960s. This sympathetic account tells
the powerful story of her determined rise through the ranks of
Hollywood and to the brink of stardom before her name became
forever linked with the shocking murder spree that took her life.In
1969, the Polanski house was targeted by the followers of cultist
Charles Manson. Why the Manson clan focused its gaze on Sharon
remains unclear, but the world was soon shocked to its core as it
learned of the brutal murders of a pregnant Sharon Tate and her
friends at her idyllic home in Los Angeles. Sanders once again
examines this horrific crime and its aftermath, expounding on what
may have led the killers to that particular house on that
particular evening. Sharon Tate takes readers on a sometimes joyous
yet inevitably heart-wrenching tour of the'60s as seen through the
eyes of someone who lived it, survived it, and remembers it all too
well. Brilliant illustrations by noted artist Rick Veitch lend
character to this riveting narrative of the life and times of a
beloved actress whose image and whose fate still haunt us to this
day.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting
conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and
co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens
examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of
envy and jealousy in Classical Athens. Previous scholarship has
primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek
words phthonos (envy, begrudging, jealousy, spite) and zelos
(emulative rivalry). This has value, but also limitations, for two
reasons: the discreditable nature of phthonos renders its
ascription or disclamation suspect, and there is no Classical Greek
label for sexual jealousy. A complementary approach is therefore
required, which reads the expressed values and actions of entire
situations. Building on recent developments in reading emotion
"scripts" in classical texts, this book applies to Athenian culture
and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious
motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviors of
envy, jealousy, and related emotions, derived from modern
philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and
anthropological scholarship. This enables an exploration of both
the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy, and
also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across
different genres-in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy, and
tragedy.
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