The Making Of Tania Hearst: How A Rich White Girl And A Black Police Spy Tried To Start The American Revolution
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A gripping work of investigative non-fiction, The Making of Tania Hearst: How a Rich White Girl and a Black Police Spy Tried to Start the American Revolution chronicles one of the most sensational and politically charged episodes in 1970s American history — the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army. David Boulton presents a meticulously researched account of how Hearst's transformation into the gun-toting revolutionary Tania unfolded against a backdrop of radical politics, FBI infiltration, and social upheaval. The narrative uncovers the shadowy role of a Black police informant embedded within the SLA, arguing that the group's revolutionary ambitions were as much a product of manipulation and surveillance as of genuine ideology. Written with the urgency of a political thriller yet grounded in journalistic rigor, the account illustrates how the boundaries between victim, revolutionary, and pawn became dangerously blurred in an era of profound American unrest.
Author: David Boulton
Format: Hardback
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of investigative non-fiction, The Making of Tania Hearst: How a Rich White Girl and a Black Police Spy Tried to Start the American Revolution chronicles one of the most sensational and politically charged episodes in 1970s American history — the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army. David Boulton presents a meticulously researched account of how Hearst's transformation into the gun-toting revolutionary Tania unfolded against a backdrop of radical politics, FBI infiltration, and social upheaval. The narrative uncovers the shadowy role of a Black police informant embedded within the SLA, arguing that the group's revolutionary ambitions were as much a product of manipulation and surveillance as of genuine ideology. Written with the urgency of a political thriller yet grounded in journalistic rigor, the account illustrates how the boundaries between victim, revolutionary, and pawn became dangerously blurred in an era of profound American unrest.