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...Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), Biographer William Andrew (Jim Fisk, Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg swings lustily into the latest effort to explain and understand that extraordinary man. It is an all but impossible task, and Swanberg, who even enlisted the service of a psychiatrist in his attempt to solve the Hearstian enigma, does not succeed. What he has produced is a fascinating, exhaustive and meticulously impartial study of a man whose true meaning eluded all who knew...
...Newspapers at All!" But if Hearst the man defies understanding, his influence on journalism can be measured with micrometer accuracy. It was heavy, lasting, and often malign. The conclusion is unavoidable, and Swanberg, for all his book's devotion to impartiality, draws it again and again. "Considerations of taste in journalism didn't disturb him," the biographer reports. "He had long since decided that the masses had no time or training for such a luxury as taste, and could be reached and molded most effeclively by the noise, sensation and repetition which he liked himself." The Hearst-papers...
...FISK (310 pp.)-W. A Swanberg -Scribner...
Civil War Historian (First Blood) Swanberg calls Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...
Author W. A. (Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...