hearst, patricia

On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre "Tania.".

A fictionalized account of the sixteen months a newspaper heiress spent underground with two members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

The complete story of Ms. Hearst's experiences in the 19 1/2 months after her kidnapping by the SLA on February 4, 1974.