Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arrow Books, London
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780099304807ISBN:0099304805
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. viii, 466p., [16]p. of plates: ill., ports.; 20 cm. Originally published: London: Methuen, 1982. Includes index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780385170567ISBN:0385170564
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear & aging to dust jacket, inscription inside, stk #1122q9. 466 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Garden City NY: Doubleday (1982) Book Club Edition 491 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: VERY GOOD, a little light age toning o/w a very nice copy, near fine condition in very good to near fine dj (a few light wrinkle at spine top) read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780385170567ISBN:0385170564
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. jacket has some wear at corners and edges, inside surface of jacket faded, flaps slightly faded; copy fine. 466 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y
Date Published: 1982
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y
Date Published: 1982
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780385170567ISBN:0385170564
Description: Fair. 0385170564. Great Value. Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Enjoy! ; 1.6 x 8.1 x 5.7 Inches; 466 pages. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. store stamp-covers/pages very good, but color aged. How could the genteel daughter of a wealthy family turn from an abused kidnap victim to a gun-toting terrorist? What happened in the five years from the time Patty Hearst was taken from her Berkeley aparment until the time she was released from prison. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780385170567ISBN:0385170564
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, shelf wear/tear/aging to dust jacket, light marks on top edge, stk #1011k7. 466 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I was just a child when Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 but I can still remember how her kidnapping made the news. Her book "Every Secret Thing" discusses her ordeal and describes some of the horrific things that she had to go through while she was being held against her will. After reading this book, I can now understand why she is an advocate for children like Elizabeth Smart of Utah who was a kidnapped victim herself and why Patty Hearst chooses to speak openly about the media and their lack of sensitivity towards victims once they are found."
"Patricia Hearst was kidnapped from her home in Berkeley, CA on February 4, 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She was kept as a "prisoner of war" by the SLA in a closet for fifty-seven days. When she was allowed to exit the closet she was given the options of joining the SLA or death, and she chose to join the movement. Hearst participated in a bank robbery with the SLA where she was identified, and she later participated in communications with the press stating that she had joined the revolution "voluntarily," rather than under duress and fear of death. The press believed her communications and she was caught, tried and sentenced to prison, but was later released on a presidential commutation. This information is readily available in many sources, but Hearst's actual thoughts, feelings, and experiences while working with the SLA are contained in this book. She begins by talking about her childhood, which, initially, seems "bourgeois" but later the reader can understand that she was using this information to counter statements by others that she was always a "rebel" and had joined the SLA deliberately and had actually directed her own kidnapping. This book reads like a novel about some poor soul, but at times the reader stops and remembers that this was actually her life."
"I guess the only reason I gave this book only two stars is that shortly after I finished it, I was wondering why I read it at all. It's just such a sad, dark story, and it goes on FOREVER....I wish that I had found a different book about the story, a book that wasn't so long and horribly depressing. Don't know if there is such a thing for this subject!"
"i couldn't put this one down! it's not poetically written, but the story is fascinating. i began to feel paranoid, hearing noises thinking the SLA was out to get me, fearing pizza delivery drivers, woke up thinking a strange woman was banging on my bedroom window. it is as if hearst's story really does the job of making the reader feel as berated as she did, with the inundation of SLA propaganda, constantly feeling afraid of being killed, agoraphobic, i felt transported and hallucinated. causes one to question the fine line between utter idealism and insanity. and that is not just the SLA, but also the FBI and prosecutor's office who convicted hearst on robbery charges, even though she had been kidnapped at 19, held in a closet over a month, denied proper nutrition and exercise, and was sensory deprived. difficult to describe who to despise more - the government's persecution of women/hearst or the misogyny of the SLA. did i say, compelling?"
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