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I went into this slowly, anticipating that it would be interesting for the first few chapters and then bog down in courtroom dreariness in the last half of the book. I need not have worried, as Mr Toobin has managed to hold the reader's interest throughout, even in the stuffy confines of the courtroom.
When you are writing non-fiction tales that present still-living persons in a less than flattering light, it behooves you to do your research. Jeffrey Toobin has researched this thing to death, and ...more
When you are writing non-fiction tales that present still-living persons in a less than flattering light, it behooves you to do your research. Jeffrey Toobin has researched this thing to death, and ...more
There is no question that Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army [SLA] in 1974. The more interesting question: was she a willing participant in subsequent crimes committed by the SLA? Was she a POW, brainwashed by her captors, or an innocent victim in fear of her life? Author Jeffrey Toobin offers no definitive answer. Rather, he suggests that Patricia acted rationally to save herself after she was kidnapped, and just as rationally after she was captured in 1975, in orde
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