American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes & Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin
Profile Books, 2017, 371 pages
鈥淒eath to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.鈥 With this hyperbolic declaration by 鈥淕eneral Field Marshall鈥 Cinque M鈥檛ume (the nom-de-plume of a Black prison escapee), the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) introduced itself to the American people in the early 1970s.