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 humble middle-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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