"Arresting portrait" -- good notice for Whyte's Hearst book

Jack Rosenthal, the former editorial page editor of the New York Times, gives a good review in Sunday's Times book review to Maclean's editor Ken Whyte's biography of William Randolph Hearst. Rosenthal says The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (Counterpoint) doesn't break much new ground, but demonstrates a prodigious amount of background reading and "largely