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There is, however, much of interest in Writer Winkler's book...
...Journal bitterly attacked President McKinley; one editorial said: "If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then killing must be done." When President McKinley was assassinated, Hearst's enemies pointed to this editorial as a contributory cause of the assassination. Writer Winkler defends Hearst on the grounds that he knew nothing about the editorial until after it was printed...
...Hearst was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. "Evidence multiplied that he had touched the hearts and gained the confidence of a great multitude, and that he was beginning to be honestly taken as an unterrified champion of the poor and helpless," says Writer Winkler. Yet Hearst was never again elected to any other important public office, though he tried for senator and governor and, at one time, boomed himself for the presidency. The man who finally spiked the political guns of Hearst was Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York...
...Writer Winkler reminds readers at least three times that Hearst never touches alcohol, though as a good host he serves wine to his guests...
...Reading about Hearst may well become a national pastime. The man is like a character in a Greek myth; people have heard dozens of tales about him, suspect or imagine dozens more, know for a fact very few. Writer Winkler once worked for him and knows him as well as any man is permitted to know...