Jeffrey Toobin’s “American Heiress” gives new resonance to an American crime story that had tremendous notoriety in the 1970s. By Janet Maslin Narration by the British hostage John Cantlie on Islamic ...

She was the granddaughter of one of America’s most powerful media moguls. In 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army—an obscure and violent leftist group. But what shocked ...