Books like Manson in His Own Words

Charles Manson is a person who comes with a whole host of associations, none of them particularly good but after reading this book and hearing his story on multiple podcasts I do think that, as he says in the book, the hype is artificial and unfair. I really don't think he has the ability to be an evil puppet master or manipulate others into murdering regardless of how much others try to say the culpability is all his. Charlie has spent only around 14 out of his 80 something years out of prison which is unacceptable, especially the treatment he endured at the Indiana reform school. I honestly still feel like vomiting thinking about the way things kept going wrong for him because there's actually no reason that this fate was inevitable for him. I'm not saying that he shouldn't be held responsible for his actions and yes he could have stopped the murders so he is in the wrong, but I don't think it's fair that he was put on death row when the only one person he actually "killed" didn't even die and he shot them in self defense. I don't understand how he became a scapegoat for the whole thing because really he's not responsible for other people's actions. Also the fact that he doesn't even have anything he could do if he got out of jail is the whole reason this problem started and even if he's let out now he has nothing because all he knows is jail. It's just completely frustrating because his hatred for the system and other people is totally valid and I can totally see why anyone would sympathize with him. Manson isn't some mythical charismatic pied piper and deserves only to be held culpable for his own crimes not those of everyone else involved with him as well. The media as always only managed to make a bad situation worse with sensationalism.Also I saw someone bitching about how this isn't written by Manson himself, like obviously it's based off interviews he says through out the book he isn't completely literate, come on.