Nathan's review
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
by Richard Hack
It would have been a much better movie if they had!
Nathan's review
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters by Richard Hack
Nathan's review
rating:
bookshelves:
biography,
cia,
history,
nixon-craziness
recommended for: 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 foul had touched something. Howard Hughes surrounded himself with a Mormon security squad and his only contact with the outside world was via a former CIA operative who had been influential in early Bay of Pigs contacts. Howard Hughes had his CIA mouthpiece try to bribe Richard Nixon, an act Nixon was later worried the Democrats knew about, so he had them bug their campaign headquarters, leading to the greatest political scandal of the 20th Century - a scandal Howard Hughes managed to keep his ...more
It would have been a much better movie if they had!