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This is Ben Wilson.

This is part two on the life of William Randolph Hearst.

And just to catch you up with where we were at in case you forgot, last time we saw how

William, who was the son of a wealthy California minor, ends up taking over his father's

failing newspaper in San Francisco

and ends up turning it around into a very successful

and the biggest newspaper in San Francisco.

And then he goes out to New York.

He takes over a paper called The Journal

and makes it the most successful newspaper in New York.

And when we had left off,

Hearst was just finished being a sort of armed war correspondent

in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. In part two, we'll examine the expansion of his media empire,

dive into his politics, and how he became one of the most important political figures of the 20th century.

And of course, through it all, we'll talk about how he did it, how he was so successful.

I think this is an amazing story of someone who took money and turned it into power and influence.

So we'll get into all that.

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