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American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst

Title: American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / Jeffrey Toobin.
Author: Toobin, Jeffrey
Publication: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.

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Description

x, 371 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre 'Tania'. The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing -- the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free ; the bank security cameras capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a robbery; cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country; Patty's year on the lam, running from authorities; and her circus like trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term 'Stockholm syndrome' entered the lexicon. The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times (there were an average of 1,500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s). Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and re-creates her melodramatic trial. American Heiress examines the life of a young woman who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade. Or did she?"--Jacket.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- Nervous breakdown nation -- From inside the trunk -- The SLA -- The point of no return -- Prisoner of war -- Not just a bunch of nuts -- Three hundred bald men -- "I'm a strong woman" -- The birth of Tania -- Stay and fight -- Common criminals -- Showdown at Mel's -- Live on television -- Apocalypse on Fifty-Fourth Street -- "The gentlest, most beautiful man" -- Jack Scott makes an offer -- Road trip -- The streets of Sacramento -- Death of a "bourgeois pig" -- Feminist bomb-making -- Freeze! -- "There will be a revolution in Amerikkka and we'll be helping to make it" -- "Your ever-loving momma and poppa care about the truth" -- More excited than scared -- The search for old McMonkey -- The verdict -- "Favoring the rich over the poor" -- Aftermath.

Call Number

JFE 16-10650

ISBN

9780385536714
0385536712

LCCN

2016016625
40026274782
9780385536714

OCLC

947041920

Author

Toobin, Jeffrey, author.

Title

American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / Jeffrey Toobin.

Publisher

New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355) and index.

Study Program

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.5 24.0 183691.

Other Form:

Online version: Toobin, Jeffrey. American heiress. New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016 9780385536721 (DLC) 2016018859

Other Standard Identifier

40026274782

9780385536714 52895

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10650

JFE 17-6201

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