American heiress the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst

Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade.

Main Author: Toobin, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 and 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".