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"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."
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| | The Chief:
The Life of William Randolph Hearst
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| | by David Nasaw
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ZIN Product Number: 10167387
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 Format: Paperback, 704 pages
Edition: 1ST MARINE
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN: 0618154469
Release Date: Jan 6, 2000
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David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is largely based on private and business papers and interviews that were unavailable to previous biographers. Newly released documentation of Hearst's interactions with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, and every American president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, as well as with movie giants Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Irving Thalberg, completes the picture of this colossal American.
Hearst, known to his staff as the Chief, was a man of prodigious appetites -- for politics, for women, and for personal possessions. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the country, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and magazines. Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power. Americans followed his metamorphosis from populist to fierce opponent of Roosevelt and the New Deal, from citizen to congressman, and remain fascinated today by the man characterized in the film classic Citizen Kane.
Nasaw's portrait also addresses Hearst's relationships, including those with his mistress in his Harvard days and for years after; with his wife, Millicent, the mother of his five sons; and with Marion Davies, his companion until death. Correspondence with the architect of Hearst's California estate, San Simeon, is augmented by taped interviews with the people who worked there and witnessed Hearst's extravagant entertaining, shedding light on the private life of a very public man.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
A gentler account of William Randolph Hearst than Welles's Citizen Kane and likely the most complete to date, drawing from heretofore-unseen private and business papers, as well as interviews. 32 black-and-white photographs.|
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
This bio debunks some long-standing myths about America's first media typhoon. —Suzanne Ruta
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | vii | | Preface | xiii | | I. | Great Expectations | | | 1. | A Son of the West | 3 | | 2. | To Europe Again and on to Harvard | 23 | | 3. | "Something Where I Could Make a Name" | 39 | | II. | Proprietor and Editor | | | 4. | At the Examiner | 67 | | 5. | "I Can't Do San Francisco Alone" | 82 | | 6. | Hearst in New York: "Staging a Spectacle" | 95 | | 7. | "How Do You Like the Journal's War?" | 125 | | III. | Publisher, Politician, Candidate, and Congressman | | | 8. | Representing the People | 145 | | 9. | "Candidate of a Class" | 168 | | 10. | "A Force to Be Reckoned With" | 186 | | 11. | Man of Mystery | 202 | | 12. | Party Leader | 214 | | 13. | Hearst at Fifty: Some Calm Before the Storms | 227 | | IV. | Of War and Peace | | | 14. | "A War of Kings" | 241 | | 15. | "Hearst, Hylan, the Hohenzollerns, and the Habsburgs" | 260 | | V. | A Master Builder | | | 16. | Building a Studio | 277 | | 17. | Builder and Collector | 287 | | 18. | Marion, Millicent, and the Movies | 303 | | 19. | A Return to Normalcy | 315 | | 20. | Another Last Hurrah | 328 | | VI. | The King and Queen of Hollywood | | | 21. | "Do You Know Miss Marion Davies, the Movie Actress?" | 337 | | 22. | Family Man | 351 | | 23. | Dream Houses | 362 | | 24. | Businesses as Usual | 377 | | 25. | A New Crusade: Europe | 398 | | 26. | The Talkies and Marion | 409 | | VII. | The Depression | | | 27. | "Pretty Much Flattened Out" | 423 | | 28. | "An Incorrigible Optimist" | 437 | | 29. | The Chief Chooses a President | 452 | | VIII. | New Deals and Raw Deals | | | 30. | Hearst at Seventy | 469 | | 31. | Hearst and Hitler | 488 | | 32. | The Last Crusade | 500 | | IX. | The Fall | | | 33. | The Fall | 527 | | 34. | "All Very Sad, But We Cannot Kick Now" | 543 | | 35. | Citizen Kane | 564 | | 36. | Old Age | 575 | | Epilogue | 604 | | Notes | 609 | | Index | 657 |
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