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Howard Hughes : his life & madness / Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele.
LIBRA CT275.H6678 B37 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barlett, Donald L.
- Standardized Title:
- Empire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976.
- Hughes, Howard.
- Celebrities--United States--Biography.
- Celebrities.
- United States.
- Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
- Businesspeople.
- Millionaires--United States--Biography.
- Millionaires.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 687 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.
- Summary:
- Aviator, Playboy, Film Producer, Entrepreneur, and Recluse, Howard Hughes lived a life that was the stuff of headlines. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele's biography is an extraordinary and brilliantly researched work on Hughes's multiple careers; his romances with Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, and Rita Hayworth; and his turn away from the world into addictions and secrecy.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Death in Mexico 19
- 1 The Early Years 26
- The Family 26
- The Rock Eater 32
- Mother 38
- Tragedy 45
- Power Play 53
- 2 Hollywood 60
- The Legend Begins 60
- Celebrities and Censors 69
- 3 Hero 75
- Young Man in a Hurry 75
- Record Breaker 81
- Race Around the World 88
- 4 The War Years 105
- The "Hate Hughes Club" 105
- Strange Bedfellows 113
- The Flying Boat 118
- "An Awful Smell" 125
- 5 The Senate Investigation 135
- The XF-11 Crash 135
- Circus on the Potomac 145
- Surprise Flight 156
- 6 Movies, Missiles, and Communists 161
- The RKO Takeover 161
- Turnabout 170
- The Red Menace 178
- 7 Revolt at Culver City 186
- "A Hell of a Mess" 186
- Another Bosom Brouhaha 195
- The Counterfeit Charity 198
- Political Insurance 202
- 8 Seeds of Disaster 208
- The Rise of the Mormons 208
- The $400-Million Order 215
- Where Is the Money? 223
- 9 Breakdown 226
- Mysterious Marriage 226
- Crisis 230
- Asylum 235
- Showdown with Wall Street 240
- 10 Retreat 250
- TWA v. Hughes 250
- The Germ War 260
- Manhunt 266
- The Victor and the Spoils 270
- 11 A New Career 276
- The Guest Who Overstayed 276
- Maheu's Old Friend 281
- April Fool's Day 287
- 12 Lord of the Desert 296
- Las Vegas on $178,000 a Day 296
- The Public-Relations Blitz 303
- Masterplan 308
- Warning from Washington 311
- 13 Out of Control 317
- A Rival 317
- The Emperor's Lieutenants 324
- A Grave Conspiracy 330
- A Nose for News 335
- Boxcar 339
- 14 The $90-Million Mistake 348
- Helicopters 348
- The Lobbying Coup 352
- The "Buy-in" 359
- 15 The Billion-Dollar Deal 365
- Merely a Millionaire 365
- Cornering a Market 368
- A Hughes Lesson 375
- 16 The Hijacking of Air West 381
- "Air Worst" 381
- Squeeze Play 386
- Washington's Rubber Stamp 392
- 17 Gold Fever 398
- "Comstock Shares Showed Moderate Gains" 398
- A Parade of Prospectors 402
- A Pig in a Poke? 405
- The President's Brother 410
- The Sting 414
- 18 Turning Point 423
- Rumblings 423
- Ouster 430
- The Empire Changes Hands 440
- 19 The Political Connection 448
- "I Can Buy Any Man in the World" 448
- The Secret Investment 454
- The Secret Mission and Secret Alliance 457
- 20 Life in Exile 467
- Hoax 467
- The $350-Million Giveaway 476
- Invalid 485
- 21 Watergate 494
- Under Fire 494
- The Hughes Connection 500
- The Well-Wired Source 509
- 22 Hughesgate 517
- "The Bastille" 517
- The Million-Dollar Burglary 522
- 23 The Cia's Best-Kept Secret 534
- Project Jennifer 534
- The Mell Stewart Problem 537
- Cover Story 540
- 24 The Last Year 550
- The Legacy 550
- The Last Fight 558
- The Candyman 563
- Where Is the Will? 569
- 25 The Fight for the Fortune 580
- Cover-up 580
- The Mormon Will 591
- Fallout 606
- Death by Negligence? 614.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Empire. 1st ed. c1979.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [641]-643) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393326020
- OCLC:
- 55149500
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