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Jeffrey Toobin

Biography

Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin is the bestselling author of THE NINE, TOO CLOSE TO CALL, A VAST CONSPIRACY and THE RUN OF HIS LIFE. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the senior legal analyst at CNN. He lives with his family in New York.

Jeffrey Toobin

Books by Jeffrey Toobin

by Jeffrey Toobin - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

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, AMERICAN HEIRESS recounts the craziness of the times (there were an average of 1,500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s). Jeffrey Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and re-creates her melodramatic trial. The book 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?