Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. ISBN-13: 9780385536714 Summary The definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history I enjoyed finding out so many of the details of the kidnapping and the conditions of her captivity. Patty Hearst’s abduction in 1974 gripped the nation. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the insanity of the times (there were an average of 1500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s). very informative --I had forgotten so many details of that saga Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patricia Hearst; and recreates her melodramatic trial. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations This meticulously researched book recounts the events from the evening of Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) until her presidential pardon by Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme CourtThe Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations American Heiress is a page-turner certainly, but Toobin, a gifted writer, infuses it with much more…Even if he ridicules the ideas and condemns the violent deeds of this ragtag group of revolutionary wannabes, they emerge not as cardboard villains but flesh and blood protagonists.” I couldn't put it down. Jeffrey Toobin was skeptical when his Doubleday editor suggested writing about the sensational 1970s kidnapping saga that Toobin would eventually recount in riveting detail in American Heiress.
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If the Symbionese Liberation Army hadn't kidnapped people, robbed banks, hijacked people and cars, murdered innocents, and set off bombs, they would be the funniest group of would-be terrorists in American history. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote.
I really enjoyed this book. I read everything I could find about it; and was convinced she had been brainwashed as her lawyer claimed. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2016 Cancel online anytime. “American Heiress,” Jeffrey Toobin’s new book about Patty Hearst, is a clever companion piece to “The Run of His Life” (1996), his book about the O. J. Simpson case.
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. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Patty Hearst?
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