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[Jeffrey Toobin] ✓ American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Random House Large Print) ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Random House Large Print) J. 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?From the Hardcover edition.. 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 t
| Title | : | American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Random House Large Print) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1524703419 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
As always with great writing, it comes down to a strong, distinctive narrative voice spiced with the judicious use of juicy details.--LA WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.. 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
"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 Sol. "Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s" according to 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 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 w. , 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 w. 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 w. Fascinating Read 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.
J. 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?From the Hardcover edition.. 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; a cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. O. 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. The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. 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
J. JEFFREY TOOBIN is the bestselling author of The Nine, for which he won the J. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the senior legal analyst at CNN. . Simpson: American Crime Story. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, The Oath, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Run of His Life,
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