10 Top american history books like Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

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

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the …

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1. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control

By: John D. Marks , Thomas Powers

4.09

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." ― New York A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assass… read more

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"A free society's best defence against unethical behaviour modification is public disclosure and awareness."

-John D. Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control

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2. The Family

By: Ed Sanders

3.90

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and… read more

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3. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

By: James W. Douglass , James W Douglas

4.36

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why Preside… read more

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"If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace."

-James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

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4. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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Cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen

5. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

6. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry

4.06

Format: 687 pages, Paperback

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more

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"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"One day Manson tried with me. I stared right back, holding his gaze until his hands started shaking. During the recess, I slid my chair over next to his and asked, "What are you trembling about, Char…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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7. The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A chilling expose of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide ch… read more

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8. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream

By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more

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9. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

By: David McGowan

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more

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10. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

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11. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

By: Paul L. Williams

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, … read more

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12. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more

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13. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

14. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America

By: Russ Baker

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

The long-hidden story of a family we thought we knew--and of a power-making apparatus that we have … read more

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

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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Cover of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

16. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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Cover of Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting

17. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

By: Wendy S. Painting

4.58

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more

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Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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19. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more

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Cover of The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

20. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

By: Brian C. Muraresku

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more

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"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

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21. Project MK-Ultra: The History of the CIA’s Controversial Human Experimentation Program

By: Charles River Editors

3.96

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

“The target of this ‘brain warfare’ is the minds of men both on a collective and on an individual b… read more

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8 Best audiobook books like Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

Transform Your Habits

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

James W. Douglass , James W Douglas

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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

Tom O'Neill

4.03

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8 Top audiobook books like Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

Transform Your Habits

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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

Tom O'Neill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

Gary Webb

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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