A quotation from Herman J. Mankiewicz

Alone in his never-finished, already decaying, pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor of newsprint continued to direct his failing empire. Vainly attempting to sway, as he once did, the destinies of a Nation that had ceased to listen to him, ceased to trust him.

Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953) American screenwriter, journalist, theater critic
Citizen Kane (1941) [with Orson Welles]


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