American Heiress - The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Verlag | Profile Books |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 384 |
Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 2,6 cm |
Gewicht | 337 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1781258155 |
EAN | 9781781258156 |
Bestell-Nr | 78125815UA |
A thrilling account of a crime that defined a decade from the bestselling author of The Run of His Life (the book behind The People v. O.J. Simpson)
Klappentext:
§Domestic terrorism. Financial uncertainty. Troops abroad, fighting an unsuccessful and bloody war against guerrilla insurgents. A violent generation gap emerging between a discontented youth and their disapproving, angry elders.
This was the early seventies in America, and it was against this backdrop that the kidnapping of nineteen-year-old Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Front - a rag-tag, cult-like group of political extremists and criminals - stole headlines across the world. Using new research and drawing on the formidable abilities that made The Run of His Life a global bestseller, Jeffrey Toobin uncovers the story of the kidnapping and its aftermath in vivid prose and forensic detail.
Rezension:
Well written ... fascinating ... [captures] that strange 1970s heyday of the counter-culture when almost every student, it seemed, wanted to be engaged in revolution. Lynn Barber Sunday Times