American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / Jeffrey Toobin.
Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade.
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." The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing--the bank security cameras capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a robbery; a cast of characters including everyone from basketball star 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 across the country; Patty's year on the lam; and her circuslike trial, 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, Toobin thrillingly 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. He 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?--Adapted from dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385536714
- ISBN: 0385536712
- Physical Description: x, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-355) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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". |
Target Audience Note: | 1110 Lexile. 1110L Lexile |
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Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch | B HEARST TOO (Text) | 34207002026731 | Adult Non-Fiction Biographies | Available | - |
Alexandria-Monroe PL - Alexandria | B HEA (Text) | 37521530775370 | AMPL Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main | 92 HEA (Text) | 36803000993662 | BIOGRAPHY | Available | - |
Eckhart PL - Main | 364.15 TOO (Text) | 840191002637012 | Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level | Available | - |
Flora-Monroe Twp PL - Flora | 921 HEARST (Text) | 50825010702255 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Franklin Co PL Dist. - Brookville PL | B HEA (Text) | 38217000556601 | Biographies | Available | - |
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | 322.4 TOO (Text) | 33187004128050 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | BIO HEARST (Text) | 32826014033815 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Greentown PL - Greentown | B HEARST, PATRICIA (Text) | 75342000082442 | Biography | Available | - |
Huntingburg PL - Huntingburg | 921 HEARST (Text) | 39970001027779 | NF | Available | - |