Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 371 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-355) and index. |
Contents |
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 and 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". |
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 when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre "Tania"...Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, Toobin...recounts the craziness of the times, portraying the lunacy of the half-baked radicals and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst.-- Adapted from dust jacket. |
Subject |
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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Hearst, Patricia, 1954- (OCoLC)fst00204471
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Symbionese Liberation Army. (OCoLC)fst00520034
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Trials (Robbery) (OCoLC)fst01156398
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
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Other Form: |
Online version: Toobin, Jeffrey, author. American heiress New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016 9780385536721 (DLC) 2016018859 |
ISBN |
9780385536714 (hardcover) |
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0385536712 (hardcover) |
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