Squeaky
Subtitle: the life and times of Lynette Alice Fromme
By: Jess Bravin.
Edition: 1st Buzz book ed.
Publisher: Buzz Books, St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Fromme, Lynette Alice, 1948-; Ford, Gerald R., 1913-  -- Assassination attempt, 1975 (September 5); Manson, Charles, 1934-  -- Friends and associates -- Biography; Fromme, Lynette Alice, 1948-  -- Trials, litigation, etc; Assassins -- United States -- Biography
Description: In the early 1950s, Lynette Fromme's world was more or less a paint-by-numbers existence that millions of other suburban children were living in Southern California. Red-haired, freckled, and convivial, she was the child of an in absentia workaholic father and a reclusive mother. She sang in the school choir and her dance troupe performed before President Eisenhower. As a young teenager she wrote forlorn poetry. Beyond her neighborhood, the counter-culture of Los Angeles.

Was thriving. Lynette began getting interested in, then became attracted to, the freedoms of that world. Little by little, she began losing her way ... That day on the beach marked Lynette's introduction to the world of shade. Charles Manson, freshly released from prison, became her guide to illegal drugs and social outcasts. Over the course of a decade, Lynette would change until she found herself imprisoned for the term of her natural life in the custody of the.

Attorney General of the United States for attempting to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford. Meticulously researched for over three and a half years, with hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of testimony to review, in Squeaky author Jess Bravin has created a psychosocial masterpiece of one American girl who ran away, and ran too far.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-417) and index.