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Toobin, Jeffrey.
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Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
Hearst, Patricia, 1954- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Symbionese Liberation Army.
Kidnapping -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Kidnapping victims -- Psychology.
Kidnapping victims -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Psychological aspects -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Social aspects -- Biography.
Rape victims -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Stockholm syndrome -- Biography.
Trials (Robbery) -- United States.
Criminal liability -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Toobin, Jeffrey.
Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
Hearst, Patricia, 1954- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Symbionese Liberation Army.
Kidnapping -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Kidnapping victims -- Psychology.
Kidnapping victims -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Psychological aspects -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Social aspects -- Biography.
Rape victims -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Stockholm syndrome -- Biography.
Trials (Robbery) -- United States.
Criminal liability -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / Jeffrey Toobin.
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Toobin, Jeffrey.
Random House Large Print, c2016.
Call #:
LP
322
.42092
T668a
Subjects
Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
Hearst, Patricia, 1954- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Symbionese Liberation Army.
Kidnapping -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Kidnapping victims -- Psychology.
Kidnapping victims -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Psychological aspects -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Social aspects -- Biography.
Rape victims -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Stockholm syndrome -- Biography.
Trials (Robbery) -- United States.
Criminal liability -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781524703417 (pbk.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
x, 642 p. (large print), [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references 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 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 Hearst family tried to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free. Bank security cameras captured "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a bank robbery. The story features a cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; and the largest police shoot-out in American history. It was 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 author thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times, the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that filled Patty Hearst's 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?"--Provided by publisher.
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True crime.
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