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The Prosecution That Defined An Era — And A Genre

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Over eight years as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, Vincent Bugliosi won 105 of his 106 felony jury trials, including all 21 of his murder cases. But one prosecution made him famous, a case against a cult leader who wasn’t even present at the killings he’d ordered. What is the book Bugliosi wrote about it went on to become the best-selling true-crime title in publishing history?

Hint: The case is often cited as the symbolic end of the 1960s, and the book’s two-word title has since become shorthand for chaos itself.

See the answer on the next page.

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