The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst Book

Author's Note 1

Prologue: Nothing By Halves 3

1 When He Wants Cake, He Wants Cake 7

2 Is God In? 47

3 A Great Deal More Than Money 76

4 A Kind of Rumba Accompanied by Snapping Fingers 99

5 Like a Blast Furnace, a Hundred Times Multiplied 121

6 A Large Brute of Some Utterly New Species 145

7 Skin the East and Skin the Rich 167

8 Four Sensations and the Morals Police 196

9 Two Warm Babes and a Hot Hansom 227

10 Taking Chances No Correspondent Ever Took 255

11 Only a Hero Can Sit for a Month on a Hotel Porch 279

12 To Slay a Dragon and Free a Damsel in Distress 312

13 Uncrowned King of an Educated Democracy 340

14 Suddenly the Dinnerware Began to Vibrate 362

15 As I Write, Ambulance Trains Are Bringing the Wounded 400

16 Standing in the First Rank of American Journalism, Feeling Blue 442

Notes 467

Selected Sources and Bibliography 505

Image Permissions 513

Acknowledgements 517

Index 519