William Randolph Hearst believed he was not reporting history but was instead creating it. By the end of the 1920s, Hearst owned newspapers in almost every major city, as well as magazines and ...

William Randolph Hearst died in 1951 at age 88. Hearst and his wife, Millicent, had five sons: George, William Randolph Jr., John, and the twins Randolph and David. The brothers worked for the ...

Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, who, by the 1930s, controlled a vast media empire, achieving unprecedented power. A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s ...

Few places better capture the opulence of early–20th century California than Hearst Castle, the 165-room former personal estate of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. The property ...

On March 4, 1897, William McKinley, Jr. (1843-1901) became the 25th President ... rallied by sensationalist journalist William Randolph Hearst, demanded intervention, and McKinley capitulated.

William Randolph Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at ...