Patty Hearst, Pt. 2

The Reference Desk

This week, Hailee continues to be bewitched by the strange case of Patricia Hearst! Patty has been held captive by a small radical political group called the Symbionese Liberation Army for over two months when she shocks the world with an announcement: she has changed her name to Tania and is joining her "brothers and sisters in the SLA.

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Staff Picks

• The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
• The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

Recommendations

Media

• The Radical Story of Patty Hearst - CNN
• Patty Has a Gun: The Life and Crimes of Patty Hearst

Non-Fiction

• American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffery Toobin
• Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a World Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
• Every Secret Thing by Patricia Hearst with Alvin Moscow

Fiction

• Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
• The Stand by Stephen King

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Sources

• Patty Hearst
• Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping
• Radically different
• Social Science and Coercion as a Defense in Kidnapping Cases Patricia Hearst: Kidnap Victim to Criminal?
• The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army
• APRIL 3, 1974
• Patty Hearst Trial (1976)

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