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American Experience: Citizen Hearst

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Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst in this two-part special. The model for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, he controlled a vast media empire, wielded unprecedented power and influence, and forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics. Hearst’s New York Journal fought a bitter circulation war with St. Louis Post-Dispatch founder Joseph Pulitzer's New York World.

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Expires: 2021-10-26

The life of William Randolph Hearst, who transformed the media’s role in American life.

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