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"Fascinating, exhaustive, and meticulously impartial"-- TIME
"If ever there was a book to sit up nights with, this is it. As enthralling as a great novel!"-- BOSTON HERALD
"Engrossing! For reading pleasure no biography has topped CITIZEN HEARST in quite a few seasons!-- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"If ever there was a book to sit up nights with, this is it. As enthralling as a great novel!"-- BOSTON HERALD
"Engrossing! For reading pleasure no biography has topped CITIZEN HEARST in quite a few seasons!-- THE NEW YORK TIMES
I read a few pages at noontime today and find it is still a very good book--I read it over fifty years ago. The author spoke to a great many people who actually knew W. R. Hearst which is invaluable because, as he notes, many of the reports regarding his doings in other newspapers were biased--W.R.H. was not the only practitioner of yellow journalism.
We visited Hearst Castle in the summer of 1958 and mom really enjoyed seeing it. Dad tended to us kids.....
We visited Hearst Castle in the summer of 1958 and mom really enjoyed seeing it. Dad tended to us kids.....
