1. PBS' The American Experience has a very good documentary about William Randolph Hearst that people in the USA (but not, I think, elsewhere) can see here:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/citizen-hearst/ …
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2. Hearst has had the odd fate of being a towering historical figure who is largely remembered for a fictionalized account of his life (Citizen Kane). Orson Welles' movie capture much of Hearst, of course, but its elegiac retrospective mood isn't only approach.
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3. Citizen Kane, coming out in 1941, was made at a time when Hearsts' reputation was at a near low -- he was Hearst the isolationist, Hearst the anti-New Dealer, Hearst the inflamer of Yellow Peril racism, Hearst the Red-baiter, Hearst the reactionary.
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4. The point of view that Mankiewicz and Welles brought to Hearst was that of disappointed lovers, so they see the earlier crusading and radical Hearst as merely a guise, a rich boy playacting as a revolutionary. But what if that earlier Hearst was sincere?
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5. I talked to @KenWhyte3, author of a fine Hearst biography, about he press baron's radical days. We cover a lot of ground, including disagreeing about the Spanish American war:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-william-randolph-hearst-radical?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …
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