American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
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New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.
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Published
New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Reading Level
UG
Level 8.5, 24 Points
Level 8.5, 24 Points
Lexile measure
1110
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-351) and index.
Description
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 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 bank security cameras capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a robbery; a cast of characters including everyone from basketball star 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 across the country; Patty's year on the lam; and her circuslike trial, 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, Toobin thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times, portraying the lunacy of the half-baked radicals and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst. He 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?--Adapted from dust jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Toobin, J. (2016). American heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst (First edition.). Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toobin, Jeffrey. 2016. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Toobin, Jeffrey. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Toobin, Jeffrey. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst First edition., Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016.
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