329 reviews for:

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin

3.83 AVERAGE

brian_g_l's review against another edition

3.0

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3.5

aj96's review against another edition

1.0

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read 10% and abandoned

xxasaxx's review

5.0

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the 70s was such a weird decade

mbfox's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous informative tense slow-paced

baeofnipels's review against another edition

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Just didn’t care. Read like a text book. Lacked depth. Felt almost…mean. Not a page turner. I was slugging through and realized it wasn’t worth my time. 

queercorn's review against another edition

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Dry 

ripangelica's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny medium-paced

tilly_wizard's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

brennie192's review

3.0

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Toobin is an accomplished lawyer and a meticulous researcher. He is not an engaging author. This read like the world's longest Wikipedia entry. It's an interesting story about a fascinating woman, but I wonder how it could have been told in someone else's hands.

leighgoodmark's review

4.0

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3.5 stars. Not much that was terribly surprising and very little historical context for the actions/philosophy of the SLA. But very readable and appropriately skeptical of just about everyone involved in the Hearst kidnapping/trials.