Blood and Fame: The Intersecting Lives of Roman Polanski and Charles Manson

Since the murder of Sharon Tate in 1969, the names Charles Manson and Roman Polanski have been brutally linked. But new analysis of the parallel and intertwining stories of these two men reveals a connection that preceded that fateful day.

In their early years Manson and Polanski both developed a hatred of the establishment and of authority-Manson, from being abused by relatives, school staff, and jailors, and Polanski from living under the Nazi regime and then Polish Communists in the 1950s...