American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385536712 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the senior legal analyst at CNN. J. O. Simpson: American Crime Story. JEFFREY TOOBIN is the bestselling author of The Nine, for which he won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, The Oath, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Run of His Life, which was made into the critically acclaimed
Hearst’s tale is much more bizarre than Mr. A New York Times Bestseller"The abduction and subsequent radicalization of Patricia Hearst is one of the most bizarre but illuminating episodes of that tumultuous era of protest d in American Heiress Jeffrey Toobin retells the story with a full-blown narrative treatment that may astonish readers too young to remember it themselves.Toobin spins this complex chapter of recent history into an absorbing and intelligent page-turner."--The Washington Post "A clever companion piece to The Run of His Life (1996), his book about the O. In an age of terrorism, the chronicle of how a sedate heiress named Patricia morphed into a gun-toting, invective-spouting revolutionary calling herself Tania holds a definite fascination."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times <
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 circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term “Stockholm syndrome” entered the lexicon. 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?. 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
"Heiress, revolutionary, or both?" according to Jill Meyer. Most people who were around in the mid-1970's will remember the kidnapping of Patty Hearst by a hapless band of revolutionary players, the Symbionese Liberation Army. This group, whose main members were - as Jeffrey Toobin puts it in his new book, "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst" - as differentiated as a fox-hole in a war-time movie. There was the black revolutionary - "Cinque" or Donald DeFreeze - the white revolutionaries - Emily and William Harris, the gay revolutionaries - Camilla Hall and Patricia Soltysik, and various, other hanger. Cathryn Conroy said Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s. Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s Cathryn Conroy Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February 4, 1974 during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed with college. Whatever happened to Patty Hearst? I knew the basics--she robbed banks with the SLA, she was eventually captured by the FBI, she was convicted, she was pardoned and she married her bodyguard. But what was the backstory? What real. , 197Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s Cathryn Conroy Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February 4, 1974 during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed with college. Whatever happened to Patty Hearst? I knew the basics--she robbed banks with the SLA, she was eventually captured by the FBI, she was convicted, she was pardoned and she married her bodyguard. But what was the backstory? What real. during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed with college. Whatever happened to Patty Hearst? I knew the basics--she robbed banks with the SLA, she was eventually captured by the FBI, she was convicted, she was pardoned and she married her bodyguard. But what was the backstory? What real. "Fascinating Read" according to M.W.. Finally, after all these years, the gaps are filled in. This book is as close as you will ever get to the truth of this case. I was there in Berkeley when the news of the kidnapping broke and this book brought me back to that moment. All I can say is Thanks and highly recommended this book to anyone who craves the missing pieces of this puzzling case.