"After she was kidnapped by a political group, college student and heiress Patty Hearst stunned the public by participating in robberies alongside her captors" Who the fuck cares? Seriously? Toobin is clearly stuck for ideas. This took place almost a half century ago! But I'll tell you why you must care - why you absolutely cannot not care, and it's right there in the title! She's an American heiress, because not another heiress on the entire planet Earth matters one-tenth as much as an American one! There you have it! Finally: the truth is out! LOL! Barf.