American Heiress

The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Biography & Autobiography

on february 4, 1974, patty hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the symbonese liberation army. the weird turns that followed in this already sensational take are truly astonishing--the hearst family tried to secure patty's release by feeding the people of oakland and san francisco for...