The Strange Case of Patty Hearst by John Pascal & Francine Pascal [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1974 • Signet

The Strange Case of Patty Hearst by John Pascal & Francine Pascal 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1974] SIGNET

Early mass market paperback exclusive Patty Hearst-sploitation outing by the author of the Sweet Valley series.

Book is in excellent condition; spot of damage / ink to corner on front cover.  Reads like new. 

FROM PATTY TO TANIA- A PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY...

When the Symbionese Liberation Army trundled a half-nude, screaming Patricia Campbell Hearst into the trunk of a stolen car, she became the victim of a totally political kidnapping unparalleled in the annals of American crime. This dramatic reconstruction of the grotesque chain of events that led to the "conversion" of Patty to Tania, the gun-wielding revolutionary, traces every subtle and sensational aspect of this spectacular horror story: Patty's conservative Catholic upbringing... her domineering, high-society mother...her rebellious private-school years... her love affair with Steven Weed... her bottled-up rage at her family... and powerful portraits of her captors, a strange mélange of black ex-convicts, white middle-class radicals, and the highly sexualized lesbian activists who possibly engineered Patty's "conversion"....