The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

图书标准信息

• 作者 David Nasaw 著
• 出版社 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• 出版时间 2001-09
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780618154463
• 定价 142.50元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 704页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

NamedoneofthebestbooksoftheyearbytheNewYorkTimes,theLosAngelesTimes,theWashingtonPost,BusinessWeek,andGQ,THECHIEF:THELIFEOFWILLIAMRANDLOPHHEARSTis"anabsorbingandingeniouslyorganizedbiography...ofthemostpowerfulpublisherAmericahaseverknown”(NewYorkTimesBookReview).Drawingonpapersandinterviewsthatwerepreviouslyunavailable,aswellasonnewlyreleaseddocumentationofinteractionswithsuchfiguresasHitler,Mussolini,Churchill,everypresidentfromGroverClevelandtoFranklinRoosevelt,andmoviegiantsLouisB.Mayer,JackWarner,andIrvingThalberg,DavidNasawcompletesthepictureofthiscolossalAmerican"engagingly,lucidlyandfair-mindedly”(ArthurSchlesinger,Jr.)."Outstandinglyresearched,elegantlybutnotflamboyantlywritten,andfairinitsconclusionsaboutHearst’sastonishingcareer”(WallStreetJournal),THECHIEF"mustberegardedasthedefinitivestudy...It’shardtoimagineamorecompleterenderingofHearst’slife”(BusinessWeek).

【作者简介】

DavidNasawistheauthorofGOINGOUT:THERISEANDFALLOFPUBLICAMUSEMENTSandtwootherbooks.HehasservedasahistoricalconsultantforseveraltelevisiondocumentariesandiscurrentlychairofthedoctoralhistoryprogramatCityUniversityofNewYork.HisworkhasappearedinTHENEWYORKER,THENATION,Cond?Nast'sTRAVELER,andotherperiodicals.HeresidesinNewYorkCity.

【目录】

Acknowledgments / vii

Preface / xiii

I. GREAT EXPECTATIONS

1. A Son of the West

2. To Europe Again and on to Harvard

3. "Something Where I Could Make a Name"

II. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR

4- At the Examiner

5. "I Can't Do San Francisco Alone"

6. Hearst in New York: "Staging a Spectacle"

7. "How Do You Like the ]ournaFs War?"

III. PUBLISHER, POLITICIAN, CANDIDATE,AND CONGRESSMAN

8. Representing the People

9. "Candidate of a Class"

lo. "A Force to Be Reckoned With"

11. Man of Mystery

12. Party Leader

13. Hearst at Fifty: Some Calm Before the Storms

IV. OF WAR AND PEACE

14. "A War of Kings"

15. "Hearst, Hylan, the Hohenzollerns, and the Habsburgs"

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