Patty's Got a Gun Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

Name: Patty's Got a Gun Patricia Hearst in 1970s America
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ISBN: 9780226305226

ISBN-10: 0226305228

ISBN-13: 9780226305226

Edition: 2008

Authors: William Graebner

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"It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army - who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. But the robbery - and the spectacular 1976 trial that ended with Hearst's criminal conviction - seemed oddly appropriate to the troubled mood of the nation, an instant exemplar of a turbulent era." "With Patty's Got a Gun, the first substantial reconsideration of Patty Hearst's story in more than twenty-five years, William Graebner vividly re-creates the atmosphere of uncertainty and frustration of mid-1970s America. Drawing on copious media…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

William Graebner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He is the author of several books and co-editor (with Leonard Richards) of The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past.



List of Figures


Introduction


The Story


Abducted


The Robbery


The Fire


Early Reactions


The Missing Year


The Arrest


The Trial


Closing Arguments


The Jury


The Verdict


Reactions Reading Patty Hearst


The Fragile Self


The Victim


The Survivor


Stockholm Syndrome


Paranoid


The Emerging Conservative Consensus


Heroes


Notes


Acknowledgments