The View from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States Foreign Policy

by Ian Mugrdige, Ian Mugridge, Ian Mugrdige

Book Overview

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 sure way to achieve security. Using all the journalistic apparatus at his disposal, Hearst trumpeted his views about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773512950
• ISBN13: 9780773512955
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"