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American Heiress
The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Book
- 2016
| First edition.
I will never confuse the term Stockholm syndrome with The Patty Hearst story again.
In a careful, detailed and chronological fashion ,Toobin takes us through the Hearst kidnapping,to her arrest.
Along the way, against the backdrop of Jim Jones and the Guaynese massacre,and the violent culture of west coast 'radicalism',we take sides and then don't with Hearst .
In the end, we leave disgusted, as big money buys her not only a defence, but a pardon..the obvious contrast between her outcome and that of the majority of prisoners without money and resources is just so loud.