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Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth. Hughes had always been different. Certainly his riches set him apart, but he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans World Airlines, a critically important defense contractor, Hollywood's most pursued and elusive bachelor, and partner of the United States government. This is an epic biography of an epic figure who bestrode the world like a colossus yet could not master himself.
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A dazzlingly reported, hard-nosed account...[A] fat, beautifully researched book. -- John Justin Smith, Chicago Sun-Times
A remarkable job of investigative reporting . . . a ruthlessly probing 688-page blockbuster biography that cracks Hughes's public persona as it disentangles the psychodrama of his private doings—his ties to Nixon and Watergate, his mysterious death, the way the CIA apparently used him to serve its own ends. (Publishers Weekly )
A remarkable job of investigative reporting...a ruthlessly probing 688-page blockbuster biography. -- Publishers Weekly
By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus yet could not command himself. It is the story of a man who had everything—and nothing. (John Barkham Reviews )
By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus. -- John Barkham Reviews
Donald Barlett and James Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the finest team of reporters west of The Times of London, herewith present the perfect biography of the weirdest, most fascinating, most god-awful corporate creature you will ever encounter in broad daylight. (Robert Sherrill - Nation )
Now the full story of the life and death of Howard Hughes has been published, told not as cheap gossip but as a dazzlingly reported, hard-nosed account...[A] fat, beautifully researched book. (John Justin Smith - Chicago Sun-Times )
Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best. -- Ted Morgan, New York Times Book Review
Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best...the first fully documented, crade-to-grave account of a unique American life. (Ted Morgan - New York Times Book Review )
The perfect biography of the weirdest, most fascinating, most god-awful corporate creature you will ever encounter in broad daylight. -- Robert Sherrill, Nation
A remarkable job of investigative reporting . . . a ruthlessly probing 688-page blockbuster biography that cracks Hughes's public persona as it disentangles the psychodrama of his private doings—his ties to Nixon and Watergate, his mysterious death, the way the CIA apparently used him to serve its own ends. (Publishers Weekly )
A remarkable job of investigative reporting...a ruthlessly probing 688-page blockbuster biography. -- Publishers Weekly
By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus yet could not command himself. It is the story of a man who had everything—and nothing. (John Barkham Reviews )
By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus. -- John Barkham Reviews
Donald Barlett and James Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the finest team of reporters west of The Times of London, herewith present the perfect biography of the weirdest, most fascinating, most god-awful corporate creature you will ever encounter in broad daylight. (Robert Sherrill - Nation )
Now the full story of the life and death of Howard Hughes has been published, told not as cheap gossip but as a dazzlingly reported, hard-nosed account...[A] fat, beautifully researched book. (John Justin Smith - Chicago Sun-Times )
Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best. -- Ted Morgan, New York Times Book Review
Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best...the first fully documented, crade-to-grave account of a unique American life. (Ted Morgan - New York Times Book Review )
The perfect biography of the weirdest, most fascinating, most god-awful corporate creature you will ever encounter in broad daylight. -- Robert Sherrill, Nation
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0786179279
- ISBN 13 9780786179275
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