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Charles Manson Embodied the Worst of the 1960sand Every Era Since

Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 10:58 p.m.

Any honest accounting of the cultural legacy of the 1960s has to reckon with Charles Manson, who died Sunday at the age of 83. Manson was a human monster whose sole talent was being able to identify the most loathsome potentials of that decade\u2019s zeitgeist and bend them to his own hideous will.