William Randolph Hearst: Media, Myth and Mystique

William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character, so much so that he appears in various fictional works, from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane," as if his life was not sufficiently bizarre in its own right. At its peak, Hearst's media empire included 28 leading newspapers from the San Francisco Examiner to the New York Journal, 18 magazines ...