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The chief : the life of William Randolph Hearst / David Nasaw.
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- ISBN: 0395827590
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Chief : The Life of William Randolph Hearst
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Table of Contents
The Chief : The Life of William Randolph Hearst
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | p. vii | |
| Preface | p. xiii | |
| I. | Great Expectations | |
| 1. | A Son of the West | p. 3 |
| 2. | To Europe Again and on to Harvard | p. 23 |
| 3. | "Something Where I Could Make a Name" | p. 39 |
| II. | Proprietor and Editor | |
| 4. | At the Examiner | p. 67 |
| 5. | "I Can't Do San Francisco Alone" | p. 82 |
| 6. | Hearst in New York: "Staging a Spectacle" | p. 95 |
| 7. | "How Do You Like the Journal's War?" | p. 125 |
| III. | Publisher, Politician, Candidate, and Congressman | |
| 8. | Representing the People | p. 145 |
| 9. | "Candidate of a Class" | p. 168 |
| 10. | "A Force to Be Reckoned With" | p. 186 |
| 11. | Man of Mystery | p. 202 |
| 12. | Party Leader | p. 214 |
| 13. | Hearst at Fifty: Some Calm Before the Storms | p. 227 |
| IV. | Of War and Peace | |
| 14. | "A War of Kings" | p. 241 |
| 15. | "Hearst, Hylan, the Hohenzollerns, and the Habsburgs" | p. 260 |
| V. | A Master Builder | |
| 16. | Building a Studio | p. 277 |
| 17. | Builder and Collector | p. 287 |
| 18. | Marion, Millicent, and the Movies | p. 303 |
| 19. | A Return to Normalcy | p. 315 |
| 20. | Another Last Hurrah | p. 328 |
| VI. | The King and Queen of Hollywood | |
| 21. | "Do You Know Miss Marion Davies, the Movie Actress?" | p. 337 |
| 22. | Family Man | p. 351 |
| 23. | Dream Houses | p. 362 |
| 24. | Businesses as Usual | p. 377 |
| 25. | A New Crusade: Europe | p. 398 |
| 26. | The Talkies and Marion | p. 409 |
| VII. | The Depression | |
| 27. | "Pretty Much Flattened Out" | p. 423 |
| 28. | "An Incorrigible Optimist" | p. 437 |
| 29. | The Chief Chooses a President | p. 452 |
| VIII. | New Deals and Raw Deals | |
| 30. | Hearst at Seventy | p. 469 |
| 31. | Hearst and Hitler | p. 488 |
| 32. | The Last Crusade | p. 500 |
| IX. | The Fall | |
| 33. | The Fall | p. 527 |
| 34. | "All Very Sad, But We Cannot Kick Now" | p. 543 |
| 35. | Citizen Kane | p. 564 |
| 36. | Old Age | p. 575 |
| Epilogue | p. 604 | |
| Notes | p. 609 | |
| Index | p. 657 |
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