Missing lyric sheets, rare book dealers and a relentless Don Henley
In the late 1970s, Ed Sanders had a choice to make.
The writer and musician had earned a central place at the counterculture table in the 1960s, releasing influential work as a poet and publisher, as well as through his underground rock band the Fugs, but his book about the Manson murders, 1971’s “The Family,” brought him out of the underground and into the grisly mainstream. The increased attention led to offers for more deep-dive nonfiction

