American heiress [large print] : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / Jeffrey Toobin.
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 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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524703417
- ISBN: 1524703419
- Physical Description: 672 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: large print, 1st edition
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, 2016.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-594) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Nervous breakdown nation -- From inside the trunk -- The SLA -- The point of no return -- Prisoner of war -- Not just a bunch of nuts -- Three hundred bald men -- "I'm a strong woman" -- The birth of Tania -- Stay and fight -- Common criminals -- Showdown at Mel's -- Live on television -- Apocalypse on Fifty-Fourth Street -- "The gentlest, most beautiful man" -- Jack Scott makes an offer -- Road trip -- The streets of Sacramento -- Death of a "bourgeois pig" -- Feminist bomb-making -- Freeze! -- "There will be a revolution in Amerikkka and we'll be helping to make it" -- "Your ever-loving momma and poppa care about the truth" -- More excited than scared -- The search for old McMonkey -- The verdict -- "Favoring the rich over the poor".
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.5 24 183691.
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- Subject:
- Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
Hearst, Patricia, 1954- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Symbionese Liberation Army.
Kidnapping victims > United States > Biography.
Stockholm syndrome > Case studies.
Trials (Robbery) > United States.
Nineteen seventies. - Genre:
- Large print books.
Biographies.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Case studies.
Available copies
- 7 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | LP 322.4 TOO (Text) | 37810435421960 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | LP 322.4 TOOBI (Text) | 34208203166128 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HEARST (Text) | 33258007966075 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Jackson County Public Library | LP 322.4209 T (Text) | 39493108038417 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | LP 322.4 TOOBIN (Text) | 33262003244511 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Paddison Memorial Branch | LP322.42 T (Text) | 0112521133812 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Repair | - |
| Paddison Memorial Branch | LP322.42 T (Text) | 0112521134018 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Scotland Neck Memorial Library | LP 322.4 TOOBIN SN (Text) | 01011700014487 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
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