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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, across the country, and around the world, giving much of her wealth to organizations supporting children, health reform, women's rights and well-being, higher education, municipal policy formation, progressive voluntary associations, and urban architecture and design, among other endeavors. She worked to exert her ideas and implement plans regarding the burgeoning Progressive movement and was the first female regent of the University of California, which later became one of the world's leading research institutions. Hearst held other prominent positions as the first president of the Century Club of San Francisco, first treasurer of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, first vice president of the National Congress of Mothers, president of the Columbian Kindergarten Association, and head of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.Phoebe Apperson Hearst tells the story of Hearst's world and examines the opportunities and challenges that she faced as she navigated local, national, and international corridors of influence, rendering a penetrating portrait of a powerful and often contradictory woman.

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        This brilliantly comprehensive work signals the first biography of a complex woman, Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919), the wife of mining tycoon and U.S. Senator George Hearst and mother of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Nickliss (history, City Coll. of San Francisco) bases this volume on a wide range of primary documents and archival materials, taking a chronological and thematic approach to her subject to demonstrate how a girl from rural Missouri, who was bound by the class and gender constraints of her time, became a key player in local, national, and even international affairs. Nickliss further describes the role that wealthy, elite women played in not only suffrage politics but also the philanthropic endeavors that underlay reform movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including improving access for women in higher education. For decades after the death of her husband, Hearst managed the family fortune intelligently, using it to accrue power and influence. VERDICT Scholars and general readers alike should welcome this terrific account of a fascinating woman who was involved in an array of Progressive Era activities. Highly recommended for lovers of biography and women's history as well as those interested in the Gilded Age and Progressive periods.--Marie M. Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., NJ

        Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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

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