American Heiress

Jeffrey Toobin recounts the February 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army and her apparent transformation within months into a willing, gun-carrying participant in the group's armed bank robberies. The book examines political radicalism, celebrity, trauma bonding and the fiercely contested line between victimhood and criminal agency.

ISBN 9780385536714 · Doubleday · 2016