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- American heiress [large print] : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / by Toobin, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)359134;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-594) and index.Nervous breakdown nation -- From inside the trunk -- The SLA -- The point of no return -- Prisoner of war -- Not just a bunch of nuts -- Three hundred bald men -- "I'm a strong woman" -- The birth of Tania -- Stay and fight -- Common criminals -- Showdown at Mel's -- Live on television -- Apocalypse on Fifty-Fourth Street -- "The gentlest, most beautiful man" -- Jack Scott makes an offer -- Road trip -- The streets of Sacramento -- Death of a "bourgeois pig" -- Feminist bomb-making -- Freeze! -- "There will be a revolution in Amerikkka and we'll be helping to make it" -- "Your ever-loving momma and poppa care about the truth" -- More excited than scared -- The search for old McMonkey -- The verdict -- "Favoring the rich over the poor".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 Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre "Tania." The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing -- the bank security cameras capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a robbery; a cast of characters including everyone from basketball star Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television across the country; Patty's year on the lam; and her circuslike trial, after which the term "Stockholm syndrome" entered the lexicon. The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, Toobin recounts the craziness of the times, portraying the lunacy of the half-baked radicals and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst. He examines the life of a young woman who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade. Or did she?Accelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Case studies.; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Symbionese Liberation Army.; Kidnapping victims; Stockholm syndrome; Trials (Robbery); Nineteen seventies.;
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- Patty's got a gun : Patricia Hearst in 1970s America / by Graebner, William.(CARDINAL)149984;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index.The story -- Abducted -- The robbery -- The fire -- Early reactions -- The missing year -- The arrest -- The trial -- Closing arguments -- The jury -- The verdict -- Reactions -- Reading Patty Hearst -- The decline of authority -- The fragile self -- The victim -- The survivor -- Stockholm syndrome -- Paranoid -- The emerging conservative consensus -- Heroes.- Subjects: Biographies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Symbionese Liberation Army.; Criminal liability; Kidnapping victims; Kidnapping; Trials (Robbery);
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- L.A. coroner : Thomas Noguchi and death in Hollywood / by Choi, Anne Soon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.Introduction -- Marilyn Monroe -- Leonard Deadwyler -- The fight to become Chief Coroner -- Robert F. Kennedy -- A wrongful dismissal -- The fight for reinstatement -- The Manson family -- Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army -- Ron Settles -- Natalie Wood -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected index."A gripping true-crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi--the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, and Natalie Wood. This book blends Hollywood celebrity and death, Asian American history, and Los Angeles and California history in a feat of exquisite storytelling. L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood is the first biography ever of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of the County of Los Angeles from 1967 to 1982. Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Noguchi conducted the official autopsies of some of the most high-profile personalities of his time, including Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, and Natalie Wood. His elaborate press conferences, which often generated more controversy than they did answers, catapulted him into the public eye. Noguchi was the inspiration for the popular 1970s/80s television drama Quincy, M.E., starring Jack Klugman. Featuring never-before-published details about Noguchi's most controversial cases, L.A. Coroner is a mesmerizing, meticulously researched true crime biography, set against the backdrop of the racial politics of the 1960s and 1970s and Hollywood celebrity culture"--- Subjects: True crime stories.; Biographies.; Noguchi, Thomas T., 1927-; Coroners; Japanese Americans;
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- Members only : secret societies, sects, and cults-- exposed! / by Tibbott, Julie,author.(CARDINAL)595952;
The Bilderberg Group -- The Bizango -- Branch Davidians -- Club 33 -- The Freemasons -- The Ghost Club -- The Hellfire Club -- The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn -- The Illuminati -- The Knights Templar -- The Lily Dale Assembly -- The Machine -- The Magic Castle -- The Order of the Star Spangled Banner/Know Nothings -- Peoples Temple (Jonestown) -- Rosicrucianism -- Skull and Bones Society -- La Santa Muerte -- The Thule Society -- The Society for Creative Anachronism -- The Symbionese Liberation Army -- Thugees.An introduction to some of history's most noteworthy and notorious secret societies and underground cults includes profiles of Opus Dei, the Freemasons, and the Skull and Bones.- Subjects: Secret societies.; Cults.; Sects.;
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- Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence / by Burrough, Bryan,1961-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-567) and index.Prologue -- "The revolution ain't tomorrow. It's now. You dig?" : Sam Melville and the birth of the American underground -- "Negroes with guns" : Black rage and the road to revolution -- Weatherman. -- "You say you want a revolution" : the Movement and the emergence of Weatherman -- "As to killing people, we were prepared to do that" : Weatherman, January to March 1970 -- The Townhouse : Weatherman, March to June 1970 -- "Responsible terrorism" : Weatherman, June 1970 to October 1970 -- The wrong side of history : Weatherman and the FBI, October 1970 to April 1971 -- The Black Liberation Army. -- "An army of angry niggas" : the birth of the Black Liberation Army, Spring 1971 -- The rise of the BLA : the Black Liberation Army, June 1971 to February 1972 -- "We got pretty small" : the Weather Underground and the FBI, 1971-72 -- Blood in the streets of Babylon : The Black Liberation Army, 1973 -- The second wave. -- The dragon unleashed : the rise of the Symbionese Liberation Army : November 1973 to February 1974 -- "Patty has been kidnapped" : the Symbionese Liberation Army, February to May 1974 -- What Patty Hearst wrought : the rise of the post-SLA underground -- "The Belfast of North America" : Patty Hearst, the SLA, and the Mad Bombers of San Francisco -- Hard times : the death of the Weather Underground -- "Welcome to Fear City" : the FALN, 1976 to 1978 -- "Armed revolutionary love" : the odyssey of Ray Levasseur -- Bombs and diapers : Ray Levasseur's odyssey, part II -- Out with a bang. -- The Family : the Pan-Radical Alliance, 1977 to 1979 -- Jailbreaks and captures : the Family and the FALN, 1979-80 -- The scales of justice : trials, surrenders, and the Family, 1980-81 -- The last revolutionaries : the United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984.An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.- Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Radicalism; Terrorism; Terrorists;
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