Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

This cultural history reappraises how the abduction, criminal actions, and trial of Patty Hearst reflected a 1970s America in moral crisis and conflict.

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—seeme...