{"product_id":"pattys-got-a-gun-patricia-hearst-in-1970s-america-0226305228","title":"Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226305228\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Graebner, William\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army-who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. But the robbery-and the spectacular 1976 trial that ended with Hearsts criminal conviction-seemed oddly appropriate to the troubled mood of the nation, an instant exemplar of a turbulent era.With Pattys Got a Gun, the first substantial reconsideration of Patty Hearsts story in more than twenty-five years, William Graebner vividly re-creates the atmosphere of uncertainty and frustration of mid-1970s America. Drawing on copious media accounts of the robbery and trial-as well as cultural artifacts from glam rock to Invasion of the Body Snatchers-Graebner paints a compelling portrait of a nation confused and frightened by the upheavals of 1960s liberalism and beginning to tip over into what would become Reagan-era conservatism, with its invocations of individual responsibility and the heroic. Trapped in the middle of that shift, the affectless, zombielike, brainwashed Patty Hearst was a ready-made symbol of all that seemed to have gone wrong with the sixties-the inevitable result, some said, of rampant permissiveness, feckless elitism, the loss of moral clarity, and feminism run amok.By offering a fresh look at Patty Hearst and her trial-for the first time free from the agendas of the day, yet set fully in their cultural context-Pattys Got a Gun delivers a nuanced portrait of both an unforgettable moment and an entire era, one whose repercussions continue to be felt today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51928195891488,"sku":"NEW0226305228","price":34.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/pattys-got-a-gun-patricia-hearst-in-1970s-america-0226305228","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}