Howard hughes autobiography ebook

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD HUGHES: Confessions of an Unhappy Billionaire - Kindle edition by Irving, Clifford.
  • This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man.
  • The sensational manuscript, described as 'the most famous unpublished book of the century', lay untouched for over 30 years - until now.

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    AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD HUGHES: Confessions of an Unhappy Billionaire

    January 17,
    I'm old enough to remember this scandal. In the 's, Clifford Irving conned the world into thinking he had secretly worked with the notoriously reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes on his autobiography. And he came very, very close to getting away with it. Irving made the mistake of being very hard on then-President Richard Nixon in the book, so the White House put pressure on a reluctant Hughes to call a press conference -- via speaker phone -- to announce that the book, and Irving, were a fraud. It was the end of the line for Irving, who wound up in jail. And the publisher destroyed all copies of the book, making it very rare for a long time.

    I'm a bit of a Howard Hughes buff, and I've been ansträngande to get my hands on this book for decades. In the 's, for a short time, Irving would sell you a kopia of the book if you e-mailed him your credit card information, which even then didn't seem like a smart ide

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    Howard Hughes: The Secret Life

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    By Charles Higham

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    Adapted to a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, The Aviator stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes!

    His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Charles Higham's biography tells the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma.

    Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his descent into madness. Bestselling biographer Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes:

    * his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and numerous others
    * his forays into sadomasochism
    * his involvement with Richard Nixon and Watergate
    * his bizarre final years

    This is a compelling portrait of a unique American figure--in a story as revealing as

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    Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

    May 23,
    Even after finishing a biography about him, I still do not think I know very much about who Howard Hughes actually was. That is not an indictment of Donald Bartlett and James Steele. They penned an exhaustive account of Hughes' life as far as they were able to. The problem lies not with their research, which was quite extensive, but with the extreme secrecy that Hughes operated under. When you are writing about someone who spent the final two decades of his life almost exclusively living in a darkened bedroom, seeing almost no one, it is going to be difficult to piece together what exactly the man thought and did.

    Hughes was not a self-made man. He inherited, at the young age of 18, his father's immensely successful business Hughes Tool Company. Both of Hughes' parents died suddenly when he was a teenager, and this had a profound effect on his life. Not only because he came into vast wealth so quickly, but because he was very much a mot
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