S.N. Behrman
A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles ... [... more]
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The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
 From Amazon.com: The epic scope of historian David Nasaw's biography matches the titanic personality and achievements of William Randolph Hearst (1862-1951), who built "the nation's first media conglomerate" from a single San Francisco [... more]
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Hollywood Classics: Reefer Madness
Amazon.com Essential Video: Although it was made in 1936, Reefer Madness didn't become a cult hit until 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Thereafter, it was [... more]
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the ...
The House of Morgan: Chernow vividly portrays the influence that the Morgan banks have had on the history of the Western economy since the late 18th century. The epic story of the development of the American industrial experience is inextricably related [... more]
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Reefer Madness
Amazon.com Essential Video: Although it was made in 1936, Reefer Madness didn't become a cult hit until 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Thereafter, it was [... more]
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Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930: A Mice, a Brick, a Lovely Night
"Oh well, I'll inspire myself with anudda inspiration": I've said this before and I'll say it again - Krazy Kat is simply one of the best comics ever produced. It completely smashes the western stereotype that comics are merely "for kids& [... more]
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Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if [... more]
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RKO 281 (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: This absorbing HBO docudrama tells the story of the making of what is considered by many to be America's greatest film, Citizen Kane. "Boy genius" Orson Welles came to Hollywood with no idea how to follow up his stage and radio [... more]
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Marihuana/Assassin Of Youth/Re
Spawn of Harry Anslinger...: In the 1930's, the precursor to today's DEA (FBN-Federal Bureau of Narcotics) was headed by an anti-marijuana fanatic named Harry Anslinger. With the aid of people like William Randolph Hearst, he helped to spread a thick [... more]
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Morgan: American Financier
From Amazon.com: As Americans cope with the social and industrial changes wrought by the computer age, we seem ready to view with more sympathy the men who shaped the similarly disruptive economic revolution at the turn of the last century. Less than a [... more]
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Citizen Kane
A beginning of a Bernard Herrmann legacy!: The first film score by the great Bernard Herrmann is still one of the most haunting and touching film scores ever written. What's also amazing (since he's so far the first person I've noticed to do it) is that [... more]
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William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951
Author: Ben Procter Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 070.5092 EAN: 9780195325348 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0195325346 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2007-05-08 [... more]
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