American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CRJ5SFS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 355 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s" according to Cathryn Conroy. Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s Cathryn Conroy Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February 4, 1974 during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed wit. , 197Brilliant Account of One of the Biggest News Stories of the 1970s Cathryn Conroy Patty Hearst and I are exactly the same age. (OK, in the interest of accuracy, she is 17 days older than I am.) So when she was kidnapped on February 4, 1974 during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed wit. during her (and my) sophomore year of college, I paid closer attention than I might otherwise have done. But after a few months, her kidnapping faded from the news, and I was otherwise engrossed wit. "Reads like a Suspense Novel" according to Michael D. Lindsey. I was 21 when Patty Hearst was kidnapped, and I embraced her story until her commutation. I read everything I could find about it; and was convinced she had been brainwashed as her lawyer claimed. But, through Toobin's exquisite writing, I began to see an entirely different story unfolding. Toobin sticks to the facts; and it is the facts that tell the tr. "a book about an important subject that is more than just Patricia Hearst" according to David Ash. As many readers--although not necessarily younger generations--will know, the story of the Patricia Hearst kidnapping was big news back in the 1970's. Hearst--an heiress to the fortune of a legendary publishing family--was kidnapped by a radical gang calling themselves the SLA. However, later Hearst herself ended up participating in many of the SLA's cri
He lives in Manhattan.. Before joining The New Yorker, Toobin served as an assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn, New York. In 2000 he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and is the senior legal analyst for CNN. He is the author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, which spent more than four months on the New York Times best seller list