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[C. G. Estabrook]

And may I recommend along with it the novel "Empire" by Gore Vidal -- certainly 
the best political novelist of the American 20th century.  Like his portrait of 
Lincoln,  it presents a more accurate picture in fictional form than the 
tendentious historical accounts of American apologists.

Whyte is a right-winger who's been the paid scribe of the a number of 
business-friendly Canadian publications. It's hardly surprising that he'd 
produce a "revisionist" account of Hearst.  The latter's criminal imperialism 
was obvious to his acute contemporaries, like Mark Twain (whose "War Prayer" 
every American should know).

An editorial in the "Springfield Republican," the leading anti-imperialist daily 
newspaper in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, declared, "Mark 
Twain has suddenly become the most influential anti-imperialist and the most 
dreaded critic of the sacrosanct person in the White House that the country 
contains."

Worth reflecting on as we deplore impoliteness to the current sacrosanct person 
in the White House.  --CGE


rlangenh at illinois.edu wrote:
> 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."