Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters : The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
by Richard Hack
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Read in September, 2004
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Howard Hughes would read this book.
Howard Hughes suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder. Howard Hughes kept his urine in a jar. Howard Hughes liked to sprawl naked in a lounge chair and hurl his feces at the television when Bobby Kennedy came on TV. Howard Hughes was the archetype of the modern military industrialist. Howard Hughes was so angered by seeing an African American boxer on television that he bought the television channel and fired everyone. Howard Hughes liked to burn all his clothes when he was convinced someone...more
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My husband has read most of the Hughes books and keeps coming back to this one. Much has been much written about this man whose mania for privacy and secretiveness was so total that even decades after his death, apocryphal stories continue to be repeated as fact. Howard Hughes's life and adventures—real or imagined—still inspire big-screen epics like Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This book delves deep beneath the surface illusion to expose the man behind all the myths. At one time a dashin...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Tommy Blacha
During a brief IM chat wherein the subject of weirdos came up, Tommy recommended this book to me, and I promptly ordered it from Amazon. But that was MONTHS ago. I can't believe how long it took me to finish it. It should have been a zip, because it was very interesting and an easy read. Life just gets complicated sometimes, I guess.
My only real criticism of this book is how rife with typographical errors it is. For a book about a famously neurotic weirdo...well, it just struck me as ironic...more
My only real criticism of this book is how rife with typographical errors it is. For a book about a famously neurotic weirdo...well, it just struck me as ironic...more
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Read in January, 2005
Another Hack book that is inflammatory, but the dirt is fun to dig up. In this case, I would highly recommend it to people that are into brilliant, bi-curious, megalomanical, heavily addicted, powerfully mad germaphobes with deep pockets.
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Read in August, 2004
Over 800 pages of not only the stuff everyone knows he did, but alot of the stuff that is still around us today, such as Hughes communications and Hughes helicopters. There are still alot of companies left over from him.
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