Member of the Family by Dianne Lake

Member of the Family by Dianne Lake

At age 14, I became one of Charles Manson's Girls. At 17 I helped put him in prison. This is my story.

At fourteen Dianne Lake--with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them--became one of "Charlie's girls," a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. 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 as one of his "girls."

Over the course of two years, the impressionable teenager endured manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true nature revealed itself. From Spahn ranch and the group acid trips, to the Beatles' White Album and Manson's dangerous messiah-complex, Dianne tells the riveting story of the group's descent into madness as she lived it.

Though she never participated in any of the group's gruesome crimes and was purposely insulated from them, Dianne was arrested with the rest of the Manson Family, and eventually learned enough to join the prosecution's case against them. With the help of good Samaritans, including the cop who first arrested her and later took her into his home, the courageous young woman eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life.

While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting account from an actual Family member is a chilling portrait that recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history.

Member of the Family includes 16 pages of photographs.

Campobasso, Craig: - Multiple award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated casting director Craig Campobasso was fifteen when he started in the entertainment business. His young acting career was off to a great start; he landed his first national commercial for McDonald's chicken sandwich, and spoke his first line of dialogue to Tuesday Weld in a MOW. After graduating high school at age seventeen, Craig went to work behind-the-scenes on such blockbuster film classics as Frank Herbert's Dune directed by David Lynch; and two Arnold Schwarzenegger movies Conan The Destroyer and Total Recall. He began his casting career on Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories. He received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Casting for a Series on David E. Kelley's Picket Fences. Craig's casting career spans three decades, including films like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow starring Jude Law and Angelina Jolie, Prancer starring Sam Elliott, The Silence of the Hams starring Ezio Greggio and Dom DeLuise, Screw Loose starring Mel Brooks, The Godson starring Rodney Dangerfield and Dom DeLuise, Don't Come Back from the Moon starring James Franco and Rashida Jones, and recently Starbright starring Diego Boneta and John Rhys-Davies. He has over 100 projects under his casting belt. To explore more about Craig Campobasso, go to: www.CraigCampobasso.com

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ISBN 13	9780062695574
ISBN 10	0062695576
Title	Member of the Family
Author	Dianne Lake
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	William Morrow
Year published	2017-10-24
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.