George Hearst

“Matthew Bernstein's lively biography of George Hearst will ignite the interest of multitudes of readers. This is narrative western biography at its best.” — Richard W. Etulain, author of Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid
 

“In George Hearst, Silver King of the Gilded Age, Matthew Bernstein provides a folksy romp through the mining, cattle, political, and newspaper worlds of nineteenth-century America. This well-researched biography is guaranteed to inform and entertain.”— Nancy J. Taniguchi, author of Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee
 

“…a first-rate biography…Bernstein does his research and writes well…” – Historynet.com
 

"As author Matthew Bernstein writes so eloquently, 'Hearst was the most famous miner in American history' ... And with Bernstein’s biography, Hearst will be remembered again as one of America’s greatest 19th-century entrepreneurs..."—True West
 

“A great telling of a rags to riches story.” — A Book with Legs Podcast
 

"...Mr. Bernstein, a professor of English at Los Angeles City College, keeps it sprightly and engaging. Hearst’s tireless questing has a fascination to it..."
—The Wall Street Journal