American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
Record details
- ISBN: 9780449807507
- ISBN: 0449807509
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Physical Description:
sound disc
12 audio discs (15 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Paul Michael. |
Summary, etc.: | On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a senior 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." |
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Subject: | Hearst, Patricia 1954- Hearst, Patricia 1954- Trials, litigation, etc Symbionese Liberation Army. Trials (Robbery) United States |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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American Heiress : The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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American Heiress : The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson , the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history 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?