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Description for Patty's Got a Gun
Hardcover. Reconsidering Patricia Hearst's story, this book recreates the atmosphere of uncertainty of mid-1970s America. It paints a portrait of a nation confused and frightened by the upheavals of 1960s liberalism and beginning to tip over into what would become Reagan-era conservatism, with its invocations of individual responsibility and the heroic. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBTB; JFC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
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 Hearst's story in more than twenty-five years, William Graebner vividly recreates the atmosphere of uncertainty and ... Read more
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 Hearst's story in more than twenty-five years, William Graebner vividly recreates the atmosphere of uncertainty and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226305226
SKU
V9780226305226
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About Unknown
William Graebner is the author of many books, including The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s and Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Postwar Era.
Reviews for Patty's Got a Gun
"In an era traumatized by defeat in Vietnam, betrayal in Washington, stagflation, and shockingly violent crimes, the saga of Patty Hearst - kidnapped heiress turned carbine-toting bank robber - was perhaps the most shocking tale of all. William Graebner's rich retelling uses Hearst's story to probe one of the central preoccupations of the seventies: the nature of personal identity. What ... Read more