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Large print book

American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 921 H4368T (CEN)

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Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016]

Physical Description

642 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

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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