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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 Ages 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 societys 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 husbands 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, womens rights and well-being, higher education, municipal policy formation, progressive volun
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- Author
- Nickliss, Alexandra M., author
- Publisher
- BISON BOOKS
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496202277
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14