William Graebner is the author of many books, including The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s and Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Postwar Era.
"In an era traumatized by defeat in Vietnam, betrayal in Washington, stagflation, and shockingly violent crimes, the saga of Patty Hearst - kidnapped heiress turned carbine-toting bank robber - was perhaps the most shocking tale of all. William Graebner's rich retelling uses Hearst's story to probe one of the central preoccupations of the seventies: the nature of personal identity. What happened to Hearst fascinated, and continues to fascinate, because it raised the question of what any of us might become in the face of extraordinary circumstances." - Thomas Hine, author The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies"
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