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)
Jeffrey Toobin is an American lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CNN and New Yorker. He is the author of five books, including The Run of his Life: The People versus O. J. Simpson which was made into the hit TV series The People vs. OJ Simpson.
Well written ... fascinating ... [captures] that strange 1970s
heyday of the counter-culture when almost every student, it seemed,
wanted to be engaged in revolution.
*Sunday Times*
A curiously gripping tale
*Daily Mail*
Gripping ... a very readable tale.
*The Times*
The abduction and subsequent radicalization of Patricia Hearst is
one of the most bizarre but illuminating episodes of that
tumultuous era of protest ...Toobin spins this complex chapter of
recent history into an absorbing and intelligent page-turner.
*Washington Post*
Riveting ... American Heiress is a page-turner certainly, but
Toobin, a gifted writer, infuses it with much more ... Even if he
ridicules the ideas and condemns the violent deeds of this rag-tag
group of revolutionary wannabes, they emerge not as cardboard
villains but flesh and blood protagonists.
*Boston Globe*
Nuanced and well paced
*Guardian*
A clever companion piece to The Run of His Life (1996), his book
about the O. J. Simpson case. Mr. Toobin has used the same winning
formula of delving deeply into an American crime story that had
tremendous notoriety in its day and retelling it with new
resonance. Ms. Hearst's tale is much more bizarre than Mr.
Simpson's ... [I]n an age of terrorism, the chronicle of how a
sedate heiress named Patricia morphed into a gun-toting,
invective-spouting revolutionary calling herself Tania holds a
definite fascination.
*The New York Times*
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