Ginnie's review
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
by Richard Hack
Ginnie's review
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters by Richard Hack
Ginnie's review
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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 dashing figure who was considered the most eligible bachelor in America, Hughes was a legendary lover of Hollywood stars and starlets, a ruthless businessman, a heroic aviator, an explorer without a map, and, finally, an eccentric recluse completely sealed off from the world, who died a lonely and, until now, mysterious death.
"Howard Hughes would have hated this book ... because he never wanted the truth to be told. Richard Hack has for the first time written the whole story in a fascinating and compelling manner. Truth in this instance is surely stranger than fiction. As the man who knew Hughes best for seventeen years and whom he referred to publicly as his alter ego, I now believe that the entire story has finally been told."â...more
"Howard Hughes would have hated this book ... because he never wanted the truth to be told. Richard Hack has for the first time written the whole story in a fascinating and compelling manner. Truth in this instance is surely stranger than fiction. As the man who knew Hughes best for seventeen years and whom he referred to publicly as his alter ego, I now believe that the entire story has finally been told."â...more
