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Large print edition |
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642 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-596) and index |
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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; a 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 circuslike 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? |
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Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
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Hearst, Patricia, 1954- -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Symbionese Liberation Army
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Trials (Robbery) -- United States
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Biografi
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Biography
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Storstil
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Rättegångar
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Kidnappning
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Large type books
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Biographies.
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Biografi
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| Classmark |
322.42092 B
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Ocl
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781524703417 |
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1524703419 |
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