The View from XanaduHearst is usually remembered as a flag waving, jingoistic patriot who was anti British, anti French, anti Oriental anti almost everything except the United States. He was regarded as an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, and a staunch isolationist who believed that minimizing American contact with the rest of the world was the only sure way to achieve security. Using all the journalistic apparatus at his disposal, Hearst trumpeted his views about the