William Randolph Hearst is deadas dead as yesterday's tabloid. But his name, like a faded headline, is a yellowing memento of the Yellow Age of U.S. journalism, when the potentate of the penny press sometimes seemed to wield more power than the President, when live bullets flew and dead bodies fell in circulation wars, and a newspaper was often the last place anybody looked for news.
In Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), Biographer William Andrew (Jim Fisk, Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg swings lustily into the latest effort to explain and understand that extraordinary man. It...
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