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Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The founder of the largest U.S. media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr., changed the face of American journalism forever. Hearst, Jr., with coauthor Casserly, tells the family's story, from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. In a detailed, straight-forward, and earnest manner, the authors examine Hearst Sr.'s notorious brand of journalism, his contentious politics, his devotion to art, his obsession with San Simeon,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly released private and business papers and interviews. For the first time, 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...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The historical fiction account of Marion Davies' thirty-four-year relationship with William Randolph Hearst including a whirlwind courtship, a movie career spanning two decades and forty-four films, a secret child, and harrowing family excesses, not to mention a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. The Blue Butterfly is a behind-the-scenes look into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie "Citizen Kane" stole her legacy and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Burdett Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A biography of well-known publisher of newspapers and magazineswho developed a sensational journalistic style described by critics as "yellow journalism" and pioneered color comics, Sunday supplements, banner headlines, and editorial crusades.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Media mogul William Randolph Hearst commissioned one of the largest and most extravagant homes ever built. The centerpiece of an estate nearly half the size of Rhode Island, the 165-room mansion overlooks the California countryside from a hilltop high above the Pacific. This documentary takes a look at this extraordinary property and offers a rare glimpse into Hearst's storybook life.
19) Devil's garden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch ...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her-- crushing her under his weight--and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why...
20) RKO 281
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The battle between Orson Welles and Wm. Randolf Hearst over Citizen Kane is the stuff of legend, rich with tales of sexual blackmail, money and threats behind closed doors.
