Nick Tosches who wrote this article early on in his career is still pumping out novels, biographies and other works in his own unique, raw and sometimes disturbing, style. Heck, he was just a kid when he wrote this! A friend of Ed Sanders when Sanders had his book store, Tosches chronicles the evolution of The Family.
I do like sharing these older articles most of which are not totally unheard of but rarely posted in their entirety.