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[rlangenh at illinois.edu]

May I recommend:' Whyte, Kenneth, The Uncrowned King: the Sensational Rise of William Randolph; Hearst, 2009, Counterpoint, Berkeley.  This is a revisionist biography of Hearst and perhaps more rational account of the Cuban crisis and the Spanish American war.  It is at striking variance from the story told in W. A. Swanberg's. 'Citizen Hearst,'I and in Orson Welles cinematic version of Swanberg, 'Citizen Kane.' 'Whyte is editor of McLean's, probably the most respected 
Canadian magazine and it tells a fantastic story in a non-sensational manner.  You may want to revise your attitude toward the initiation of America's venture into big time world politics and "imperialism."