Jeffrey Melnick

Jeffrey Melnick has been thinking about the Manson Family since first encountering the book and mini-series "Helter Skelter" in the 1970s. Melnick is a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of "9/11 Culture: America Under Construction" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), "Black-Jewish Relations on Trial" (University Press of Mississippi, 2000), and "A Right to Sing the Blues" (Harvard University Press, 1999). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.