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The Chief
Author | : David Nasaw |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780547524726 |
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The definitive and “utterly absorbing” biography of America’s first news media baron based on newly released private and business documents (Vanity Fair). William Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the Chief, was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and thirteen magazines. He quickly learned how to use this media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power. The son of a gold miner, Hearst underwent a public metamorphosis from Harvard dropout to political kingmaker; from outspoken populist to opponent of the New Deal; and from citizen to congressman. In The Chief, David Nasaw presents an intimate portrait of the man famously characterized in the classic film Citizen Kane. With unprecedented access to Hearst’s personal and business papers, Nasaw details Heart’s relationship with his wife Millicent and his romance with Marion Davies; his interactions with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, and every American president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt; and his acquaintance with movie giants such as Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Irving Thalberg. An “absorbing, sympathetic portrait of an American original,” The Chief sheds light on the private life of a very public man (Chicago Tribune).
Citizen Hearst
Author | : W. A. Swanberg |
Publsiher | : Galahad Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Journalists |
ISBN | : 0883659700 |
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This is the enthralling and often outrageous story of America's most enigmatic millionnaire, William Randolph Hearst. The most powerful newspaper mogul for more than a half century was one of the most mysterious and fascinating characters in this country's history. 42 photos.
The Uncrowned King
Author | : Kenneth Whyte |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781458760418 |
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A riveting profile of William Randolph Hearst's astonishing rise in the golden age of newspaper journalism. ''Exhaustively researched and elegantly written . . . brims with charming characters and stories. It deftly captures the bygone era of Gilded Age new papering . valuable contribution to the literature of Hearst and the history of journalism.''
Walking Shadows
Author | : John Evangelist Walsh |
Publsiher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0299205002 |
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Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles's own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama. Citizen Kane portrayed the ruthless career of an all-powerful magnate bearing (not accidentally) a striking resemblance to Hearst, who immediately tried to kill the picture. John Evangelist Walsh here illuminates the conflict between these two outsize personalities and for the first time brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore. Walsh provides thorough documentation, supplemental notes, and an extended bibliography.
William Randolph Hearst
Author | : Bonnie Z. Goldsmith |
Publsiher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781617853104 |
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This title examines the remarkable life of William Randolph Hearst and the building of his newspaper legacy. Readers will learn about Hearst's background and education, as well as his innovation of newspapers, his political pursuits, and the Hearst empire today. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
William Randolph Hearst
Author | : Ben Procter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199830794 |
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William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the most powerful media mogul the world had ever seen, and in the process earned himself the title of "most hated man in America" on four different occasions. Now in the second volume of this sweeping biography, Ben Procter gives readers a vivid portrait of the final 40 years of Hearst's life. Drawing on previously unavailable letters and manuscripts, and quoting generously from Hearst's own editorials, Procter covers all aspects of Hearst's career: his journalistic innovations, his impassioned patriotism, his fierce belief in "Government by Newspaper," his frustrated political aspirations, profligate spending and voracious art collecting, the building of his castle at San Simeon, and his tumultuous Hollywood years. The book offers new insight into Hearst's bitter and highly public quarrels with Al Smith (who referred to Hearst papers as "Mudgutter Gazettes") and FDR (whose New Deal Hearst dubbed the "Raw Deal"); his 30-year affair with the actress Marion Davies (and her own affairs with others); his political evolution from a progressive trust-buster and "America first" isolationist to an increasingly conservative and at times hysterical anti-communist. Procter also explores Hearst's ill-considered meeting with Hitler, his attempts to suppress "Citizen Kane," and his relationships with Joseph Kennedy, Charles Lindbergh, Louis B. Meyer, and many other major figures of his time. As Life magazine noted, Hearst newspapers were a "one-man fireworks display"--sensational, controversial, informative, and always entertaining. In Ben Procter's fascinating biography, Hearst shines forth in all his eccentric and egocentric glory.
William Randolph Hearst a Sketch of His Life
Author | : William Randolph Hearst |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:855801225 |
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William Randolph Hearst
Author | : Nancy Frazier |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0382095855 |
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A biography of well-known publisher of newspapers and magazines who developed a sensational journalistic style described by critics as "yellow journalism" and pioneered color comics, Sunday supplements, banner headlines, and editorial crusades.