Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
By Richard Hack
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Drawing on secreted letters, declassified FBI files, autopsy reports, more than 110,000 pages of court testimony, and exclusive interviews, Hack reveals a man so devious in his thinking and so perverse in his desires that his impact continues to be felt even today. From entertainment to politics, aviation to espionage, the influence and manipulation of Howard Hughes has left an indelible and unique mark on the American cultural landscape.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very very detailed biography. Starts with his death and the mysteries that surrounded it. If you liked the movie The Aviator this might be a good book for you. It fills in a lot of the blanks and some of the strange behaviors exhibited in that movie. Follows his life from when he was a sickly child. Moving around and around, losing his mother and then his father. His public persona as a ladies man, generally with young girls. Then his deterioration into different manias, locking himself away from the outside world for days to weeks to months on end. Again very detailed but after a while it just turns tedious.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fine biography, sprinkled with twentieth century American history.