| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America. By William Graebner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 218 pp. $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-30522-6.)

During the mid-1970s Americans were baffled and troubled by images of a kidnapped heiress, carbine slung across her shoulder, calmly abetting the robbery of a California bank. Speculations about her motivations abounded: Was she brainwashed by her antiauthoritarian abductors, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)? Was she participating as a result of fear or of "coercive persuasion," as her legal defense later argued? Or had Patty Hearst experienced a political awakening, a conversion to the sla's critique of urban poverty and racial exploitation, thus making the bank robbery an act of Robin Hood–esque redistribution? William Graebner probes those questions in Patty's Got a Gun with insights enhanced by three decades' removal from that memorable episode.

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