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Charles Foster Kane — ink portraitFiction
§ The minds · fictional · United States · Press magnate (fiction)

Charles Foster Kane

Power, and its emptiness

The tycoon who had everything but enough.

Rooted Capitalist →
Economic+90
SocialistMarket
Governance+10
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Social−28
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Welles's newspaper tycoon, modelled on the press barons of the age, whose limitless acquisition and final emptiness make him cinema's great parable of capitalist appetite.

social

Possessive traditionalist undone by his own hunger for control.

economic

Built a vast newspaper-and-industry fortune on appetite and acquisition.

governance

Wielded private media power and reached for political office.

Notable for
  • Hero of 'Citizen Kane'
  • 'Rosebud'
  • Archetype of the press baron
media-empireacquisitionpower
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