The 'Feral Intensity' of the 70s

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 4, 2017

Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN legal analyst and author of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (Anchor, 2017), examines the life and trial of Patty Hearst and the radical, political terrorism she was was a part of that exemplified the 1970s. 

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