The Iron Heel, refers to Hearst by name; and the plot "predicts" the destruction of his publishing empire (along with the Democratic Party) in 1912, by means of an oligarchy of plutocrats and industrial trusts engineering the cessation of his advertising revenue. In Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead (1943) and its eponymous 1949 film adaptation, the character Gail Wynand, a newspaper magnate who thinks he can control public sentiment but in reality is only a servant of the masses, is inspired by and modeled after the life of William Randolph Hearst. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Hearst is anonymously described as the "newspaper fella near the coast" who "got a million acres" and looks "crazy an' mean" in pictures (ch. 18). In Gore Vidal's historic novel series, Narratives of Empire, Hearst is a major character. Scott Westerfeld's novel Goliath (2011) depicts Hearst in World War I. In Charlaine Harris' The Russian Cage (2021) Hearst was the ruler of the HRE (formerly west coast states of US) who permitted the tsar and his entourage to settle in the defunct Navy base at San Diego. Television The rivalry between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer has been documented on National Geographic Channel's series American Genius (2015). In the TNT series "The Alienist", in the second season played by Matt Letscher. In "The Paper Dynasty" (1964) episode of the syndicated Western television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Hearst (played by James Hampton) struggles to turn a profit despite increased circulation of The San Francisco Examiner, featuring James Lanphier (1920–1969) as Ambrose Bierce and Robert O. Cornthwaite as Sam Chamberlain. In "The Odyssey", a 1979 episode of the television series Little House on the Prairie, Hearst (played by Bill Ewing) is depicted as a friendly and talented young San Francisco journalist. Hearst (portrayed by John Colton) appears in the season 2 episode "Hollywoodland" of the NBC series Timeless. See also Hearst Ranch History of American newspapers The Hacienda (Milpitas Ranchhouse) References Notes Citations Sources Further reading Bernhardt, Mark. "The Selling of Sex, Sleaze, Scuttlebutt, and other Shocking Sensations: The Evolution of New Journalism in San Francisco, 1887–1900." American Journalism 28#4 (2011): 111–42. Carlisle, Rodney. "The Foreign Policy Views of an Isolationist Press Lord: W. R. Hearst & the International Crisis, 1936–41" Journal of Contemporary History (1974) 9#3 pp. 217–27. Goldstein, Benjamin S. “‘A Legend Somewhat