George Hearst

Author : Matthew Bernstein
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806177403

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George Hearst by Matthew Bernstein Pdf

Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820–91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of financial ruin. In George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age, Matthew Bernstein captures Hearst’s ascent, casting light on his actions during the Civil War, his tempestuous marriage to his cousin Phoebe, his role as disciplinarian and doting father to future media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and his devious methods of building the greatest mining empire in the West. Whether driving a pack of mules laden with silver from the Comstock Lode to San Francisco, bribing jurors in Pioche and Deadwood, or unearthing bonanzas in Utah and Montana Territories, Hearst’s cunning, energy, and industry were always evident, along with occasional glimmers of the villainy ascribed to him in the television series Deadwood. In this first full-length biography, George Hearst emerges in all his human dimensions and historical significance—an ambitious, complex, flawed, and quintessentially American character.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00092646

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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of George Hearst by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. 52d Cong., 2d sess., 1892-1893,United States. Congress Memorial Addresses and Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082323886

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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of George Hearst, (a Senator from California,) by United States. 52d Cong., 2d sess., 1892-1893,United States. Congress Memorial Addresses and Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Memorial Day addresses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024602471

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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of George Hearst, (a Senator from California,) by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Alexandra M. Nickliss
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496202277

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Phoebe Apperson Hearst by Alexandra M. Nickliss Pdf

"Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ben Procter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195354584

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William Randolph Hearst by Ben Procter Pdf

William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in William Randolph Hearst, Ben Procter gives us the most authoritative account of Hearst's extraordinary career in newspapers and politics. Born to great wealth--his father was a partial owner of four fabulously rich mines--Hearst began his career in his early twenties by revitalizing a rundown newspaper, the San Franciso Examiner. Hearst took what had been a relatively sedate form of communicating information and essentially created the modern tabloid, complete with outrageous headlines, human interest stories, star columnists, comic strips, wide photo coverage, and crusading zeal. His papers fairly bristled with life. By 1910 he had built a newspaper empire--eight papers and two magazines read by nearly three million people. Hearst did much to create "yellow journalism"--with the emphasis on sensationalism and the lowering of journalistic standards. But Procter shows that Hearst's papers were also challenging and innovative and powerful: They exposed corruption, advocated progressive reforms, strongly supported recent immigrants, became a force in the Democratic Party, and helped ignite the Spanish-American War. Procter vividly depicts Hearst's own political career from his 1902 election to Congress to his presidential campaign in 1904 and his bitter defeats in New York's Mayoral and Gubernatorial races. Written with a broad narrative sweep and based on previously unavailable letters and manuscripts, William Randoph Hearst illuminates the character and era of the man who left an indelible mark on American journalism.

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547524726

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The Chief by David Nasaw Pdf

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).

Author : Kenneth Whyte
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458760418

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The Uncrowned King by Kenneth Whyte Pdf

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.''

Author : Victoria Kastner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004465399

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Hearst Castle by Victoria Kastner Pdf

Illustrated here are the Castle's Spanish ceilings and other architectural fragments, medieval tapestries, Renissance furniture, nineteenth-century sculpture, and wide-ranging examples of European decorative arts, including ceramics, metalworks, textiles, and more."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alexandra M. Nickliss
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496205322

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Phoebe Apperson Hearst by Alexandra M. Nickliss Pdf

In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of the era and a philanthropist, almost without rival, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hearst was born into a humble middle-class family in rural Missouri in 1842, yet she died a powerful member of society's urban elite in 1919. Most people know her as the mother of William Randolph Hearst, the famed newspaper mogul, and as the wife of George Hearst, a mining tycoon and U.S. senator. By age forty-eight, however, Hearst had come to control her husband's extravagant wealth after his death. She shepherded the fortune of the family estate until her own death, demonstrating her intelligence and skill as a financial manager. Hearst supported a number of significant urban reforms in the Bay Area, across the country, and around the world, giving much of her wealth to organizations supporting children, health reform, women's rights and well-being, higher education, municipal policy formation, progressive voluntary associations, and urban architecture and design, among other endeavors. She worked to exert her ideas and implement plans regarding the burgeoning Progressive movement and was the first female regent of the University of California, which later became one of the world's leading research institutions. Hearst held other prominent positions as the first president of the Century Club of San Francisco, first treasurer of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, first vice president of the National Congress of Mothers, president of the Columbian Kindergarten Association, and head of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Phoebe Apperson Hearst tells the story of Hearst's world and examines the opportunities and challenges that she faced as she navigated local, national, and international corridors of influence, rendering a penetrating portrait of a powerful and often contradictory woman.

Author : Taylor Coffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056232609

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Building for Hearst and Morgan by Taylor Coffman Pdf

"From bank failures and presidential races to Hearst's royal entertaining and the opening of the Big Sur highway, the subjects here are part of an ever-changing pageant. Insightful and poignant, humorous and candid, Building for Hearst and Morgan-offers unique perspectives on a vivid era whose like we'll never see again."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548788

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Toobin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345803153

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American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin Pdf

A National Bestseller From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst Family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbonese Liberation Army. The weird turns that followed in this already sensational take are truly astonishing--the Hearst family tried to secure Patty's release by feeding the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; bank security cameras captured "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a roberry; the LAPD engaged in the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event was broadcast live on telelvision stations across the country; and then there was Patty's circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term "Stockholm syndrome" entered the lexicon. Ultimately, the saga highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. American Heiress portrays the electrifying lunacy of the time and the toxic mic of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and captivated the nation.

Author : Alonzo Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : California
ISBN : UCLA:31158004770656

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Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men by Alonzo Phelps Pdf

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : California
ISBN : SRLF:A0003126984

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Journals of the Legislature of the State of California by California. Legislature Pdf