Domestic terrorism.
Using new research and drawing on the formidable abilities that made The Run of His Life a global bestseller, Jeffrey Toobin uncovers the story of the kidnapping and its aftermath in vivid prose and forensic detail..
This was the early seventies in America, and it was against this backdrop that the kidnapping of nineteen-year-old Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Front - a rag-tag, cult-like group of political extremists and criminals - stole headlines across the world.
A violent generation gap emerging between a discontented youth and their disapproving, angry elders.
Troops abroad, fighting an unsuccessful and bloody war against guerrilla insurgents.
Financial uncertainty.
Domestic terrorism
