Chief The Life of William Randolph Hearst

Name: Chief The Life of William Randolph Hearst
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ISBN: 9780618154463

ISBN-10: 0618154469

ISBN-13: 9780618154463

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Nasaw

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Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is "an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known" (New York Times Book Review). Drawing on papers and interviews that were previously unavailable, as well as on newly released documentation of interactions with such figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, every president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, and movie giants Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Irving Thalberg, David Nasaw completes the picture of this colossal American "engagingly,…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.82" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

David Nasaw is currently a professor of history and director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he lives in Manhattan.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Great Expectations



A Son of the West



To Europe Again and on to Harvard



"Something Where I Could Make a Name"



Proprietor And Editor



At the Examiner



"I Can't Do San Francisco Alone"



Hearst in New York: "Staging a Spectacle"



"How Do You Like the Journal's War?"



Publisher, Politician, Candidate, And Congressman



Representing the People



"Candidate of a Class"



"A Force to Be Reckoned With"



Man of Mystery



Party Leader



Hearst at Fifty: Some Calm Before the Storms



Of War And Peace



"A War of Kings"



"Hearst, Hylan, the Hohenzollerns, and the Habsburgs"



A Master Builder



Building a Studio



Builder and Collector



Marion, Millicent, and the Movies



A Return to Normalcy



Another Last Hurrah



The King And Queen Of Hollywood



"Do You Know Miss Marion Davies, the Movie Actress?"



Family Man



Dream House



Businesses as Usual



A New Crusade: Europe



The Talkies and Marion



The Depression



"Pretty Much Flattened Out"



"An Incorrigible Optimist"



The Chief Chooses a President



New Deals And Raw Deals



Hearst at Seventy



Hearst and Hitler



The Last Crusade



The Fall



The Fall



"All Very Sad, But We Cannot Kick Now"



Citizen Kane



Old Age


Epilogue


Notes


Index