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Further Reading

A list of books about subjects related to this season of RIP CURRENT, written by people we interviewed.

Dan Berger

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.

Jess Bravin

Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme.

Bryan Burrough

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.

David Cunningham

There’s Something Happening Here : The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence.

Lee Darby

Stars in Our Eyes.

Joel Dimsdale

Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media.

Frank Falzon and Duffy Jennings

San Francisco Homicide Inspector 5-Henry-7: My Inside Story of the Night Stalker, City Hall Murders, Zebra Killings, Chinatown Gang Wars, and a City Under Siege.

Brittany Friedman

Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons (Justice, Power, and Politics) [Available January 7, 2025]

Peggy Garrity

In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer.

Rachael Hanel
Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-Town America to the
Symbionese Liberation Army

Jacob Holdt

American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American Underclass.

Duffy Jennings

Reporter's Note Book: A San Francisco Chronicle Journalist's Diary of the Shocking Seventies.

Diane Lake and Deborah Herman

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties.

Dary Matera (with Edward George)

Taming the Beast: Charles Manson’s life behind bars.

Yanek Mieczkowski

Gerald Ford and the challenges of the 1970s.

Rick “Sundown” Riley

The Thief on the Cross.

Geri Spieler

Housewife Assassin: The woman who tried to kill President Ford.

Jeffrey Toobin

American Heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst.

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