Alexandra M. Nickliss

Phoebe Apperson Hearst (eBook, ePUB)

A Life of Power and Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of the era and a philanthropist, almost without rival, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hearst was born into a humblemiddle-class family in rural Missouri in 1842, yet she died a powerful member of society's urban elite in 1919. Most people know her as the mother of William Randolph Hearst, the famed newspaper mogul, and as the wife of George Hearst, a mining tycoon and U.S. senator. By age forty-eight, however, Hearst had come to control her husband's extravagant wealth after his death.She shepherded the fortune of the family estate until her own death, demonstrating her intelligence and skill as a financial manager. Hearst supported a number of significant urban reforms in the Bay Area,...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496205322
• Artikelnr.: 52535221

Autorenporträt

Alexandra M. Nickliss is an instructor of history at City College of San Francisco. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Author’s Note    
1. Ability    
2. Money    
3. Political Agenda    
4. Power by Design    
5. Benefits for Women    
6. Limits    
7. National Politics    
8. The Vote    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index