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

by William Graebner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305228
• ISBN13: 9780226305226
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"