The Hearst newspaper chain, at its peak, one of the largest in the history of American journalism, was a mouthpiece for William Randolph Hearst. He expounded his views on national and world events in editorials, becoming a major and ever-present figure in the political arena. Despise and hate him as they might, American presidents and politicians could not ignore him, even during his later years. This book evaluates Hearst's attitudes toward US foreign policy issues and the effect of his views on national foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century. Hearst is usually remembered as a flag-waving, jingoistic patriot who was anti-British, anti-French, anti-Oriental - anti-almost everything except the United States. He was regarded as an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, and a staunch isolationist who believed that minimizing American contact with the rest of the world was the only way to achieve security. Using all the journalistic apparatus at his disposal, Hearst trumpeted his views about the conduct of his own nations and peoples and, more particularly about the conduct of his own country in relation to them.
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"Probably the best picture of Hearst's overall thinking to date. Mugridge's assessments are judicious and balanced, correcting previous excesses and biases." David Healy, History, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "The View from Xanadu marks a significant contribution to the historiography of American foreign relations and the nexus between media and policy. It will take its place alongside Ronald Steel's Walter Lippmann and the American Century as a basic reference on journalism and U.S. foreign relations." Geoff Smith, History, Queen's University.
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This review is from: The View from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
Mugridge appears to have taken on this task outside his discipline by way of fulfilling a personal commitment. The result seems to reflect this: View from Xanadu is a competent, well-assembled discussion of Hearst's foreign policy views, without a great deal to say. Mugridge locates Hearst - at least until the thirties - firmly within the American Progressive tradition (in spite of his battles with T Roosevelt), and skilfully illuminates his changing views of the Russian Revolution. However, his thesis that Hearst believed his own propaganda about his role in initiating the Spanish-American War and never recovered from it doesn't seem borne out by the assembled evidence. Beyond this, there isn't a great deal you'll get from this that you won't get more entertainingly - if less well-sourced - from Gore Vidal's novels of the period. On the positive side, the book is well-footnoted and relatively short - you can knock it off in a day.
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