American Heiress

I thought it would be better. It starts off well enough, but Toobin tails the story and the big picture analysis off the further along the books goes. Part of it is Ms. Hearst. It turns out that the pool isn't that deep. Hard to work with something where nothing is there. It also kind of grinds along. I picked it up and put it down several time over the course of a summer.

Comprehensive but somewhat dry story of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. I was a young teenager at the time and somewhat caught up in the drama but not terribly concerned with the details, and this fills in a lot of blanks. Toobin isn't shy about making his opinion known about Patty's innocence or guilt, which stands in stark contradiction to Hearst's autobiography. Favorite part - finding out that a sportswriter who played a small part in hiding the fugitive Hearst was BFFs with basketball star/sportscaster Bill Walton.