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Revolution’s End

The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA

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Written by: Brad Schreiber
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WINNER, INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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Forty years after the Patty Hearst "trial of the century," people still don't know the true story of the events.

Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.

Neither Hearst nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze realized that he was molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape, thanks to collusion with the California Department of Corrections. DeFreeze's secret mission: infiltrate and discredit Bay Area antiwar radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of 70s activism. When the murder of the first black Oakland schools superintendent failed to create an insurrection, DeFreeze was alienated from his controllers and, his life in jeopardy, decided to become a legitimate revolutionary.

Revolution's End finally elucidates the complex relationship of Hearst and DeFreeze and proves that the largest shoot-out in US history, which killed six members of the SLA in South Central Los Angeles, ended when the LAPD purposely set fire to the house and incinerated those six radicals on live television, nationwide, as a warning to American leftists.

©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc. (P)2017 Brad Schreiber
Biographies & Memoirs Political Science True Crime United States
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Excellent book! +++AAA

A must read/listen for those interested in deep history, especially the era of the 1960's & early-to-mid 1970's.

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Complete - if a little Biased

To be fair, Brad Schreiber makes his politics pretty clear at the outset of the book - this is going to be sympathetic to the "Revolutionaries" discussed in the book and critical of Government/Law Enforcement. With that in mind, he exhaustively researches the life events of Symbionese Liberation Army leader Donald DeFreeze, his eventual kidnapping and co-opting of Billionaire heiress Patty Hearst, and his bullet-ridden death along with five other members on live Television.
The writing is acceptable (despite genuinely weak description, Schreiber exhibits decent vocabulary & pacing), the interpretations are logical & clear, and the subject matter is fascinating. Schreiber provides a more than decent exposé of the 60s/70s version of AntiFa.
I just wish he had been a little more clinical.

I also wish Blackstone Audio had insisted on a professional reader. Mr Schreiber knows his material intimately, and exhibits creditable diction, cadence, and tone.. but he sounds like he had a cold that week (a little nasal and with a rough voice) and the book is best consumed at 1.15X (Schreiber reads much too slowly).

Altogether, I am happy that Audible offered this 6/10 star audiobook for free as part of the 'Plus' catalogue, because I doubt I would have invested a Credit on it.
(Mind you, you're not crazy to do so if you're really intrigued by criminal counterculture).

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