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Rumpus Book ClubPatty’s Got A Gun
Patty Hearst was molested, kept bound, blindfolded and gagged in a padded closet for weeks. She was told she had been captured by a vast army and could join them or be killed. Her trial was a public argument about what it meant to possess an autonomous self in the seventies. Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, considers Patty’s Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America.
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