Howard Hughes: The Untold Story
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306813920 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An Incredible Life Story of An Incredible Man!" according to Guerrilla Reader. Review of: "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story," Hardcover – March 1, 1996 by Peter Harry Brown.Broeske and Brown have created an excellent biography. Many people came across Howard Hughes (HH) as an icon from Scorsese's 200An Incredible Life Story of An Incredible Man! Guerrilla Reader Review of: "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story," Hardcover – March 1, 1996 by Peter Harry Brown.Broeske and Brown have created an excellent biography. Many people came across Howard Hughes (HH) as an icon from Scorsese's 2004 movie "The Aviator." Being slightly older I remembered the Hughes legacy from his involvement by lending his name to the Hughes Glomar Explorer (HGE) / K-129 Scandal where the HGE was commissioned to be built for the CIA (thus government owned) in order for that agency to covertly attempt the recovery of the Soviet K-129 Submarine in 1974 from the bottom of the. movie "The Aviator." Being slightly older I remembered the Hughes legacy from his involvement by lending his name to the Hughes Glomar Explorer (HGE) / K-129 Scandal where the HGE was commissioned to be built for the CIA (thus government owned) in order for that agency to covertly attempt the recovery of the Soviet K-129 Submarine in 197An Incredible Life Story of An Incredible Man! Guerrilla Reader Review of: "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story," Hardcover – March 1, 1996 by Peter Harry Brown.Broeske and Brown have created an excellent biography. Many people came across Howard Hughes (HH) as an icon from Scorsese's 2004 movie "The Aviator." Being slightly older I remembered the Hughes legacy from his involvement by lending his name to the Hughes Glomar Explorer (HGE) / K-129 Scandal where the HGE was commissioned to be built for the CIA (thus government owned) in order for that agency to covertly attempt the recovery of the Soviet K-129 Submarine in 1974 from the bottom of the. from the bottom of the. Grilch said Fascinating Bio, Lousy Kindle Edition. After watching The Aviator I wanted to know more about Hughes and this seemed to be the most reputable volume. Very well written and researched, this bio tells you all you need to know about the man and the truth and the details are much more outlandish than even Hollywood can portray. All areas of Hughes’s life are examined in detail but the focus here leans more toward his mental/emotional problems and his pathological womanizing. Hughes remains one of the most fascinating and brilliant figures of the "Fascinating Bio, Lousy Kindle Edition" according to Grilch. After watching The Aviator I wanted to know more about Hughes and this seemed to be the most reputable volume. Very well written and researched, this bio tells you all you need to know about the man and the truth and the details are much more outlandish than even Hollywood can portray. All areas of Hughes’s life are examined in detail but the focus here leans more toward his mental/emotional problems and his pathological womanizing. Hughes remains one of the most fascinating and brilliant figures of the 20th Century but by the end of the book I grew weary of the minutiae of his m. 0th Century but by the end of the book I grew weary of the minutiae of his m. "Icarus" according to Noctem. If you’re looking for Howard the Business Man, keep looking. You won’t find an exhaustive analysis of Hughes’ financial ventures here, nor does this work detail Howard the Aviator (Charles Barton’s Howard and his Flying Boat is currently the single best work available on Howard’s aviation achievements). Sure the book does cover these areas, as it follows the full sweep of the man’s near-mythical life—from his restrictive rearing by a hypochondriacal mother, to his stunningly inglorious demise in 1976—but the main focus of Brown and Broesk
Surely there are few untold stories about Hughes, the brilliant inventor and shrewd businessman who pioneered commercial aviation, became the only individual ever to personally own a movie studio, led Trans World Airlines to become the preeminent international air carrier, womanized his way across the tabloid headlines of the 1920s and '30s, and descended into frightful paranoia and drug addiction in his old age. . Authors Broeske and Brown concentrate on the womanizing in this entertaining biography, which chronicles Hughes' affair with Katharine Hepburn, among many others
He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens, a sexual sultan with a harem of teenage consorts, a political insider with intimate ties to Watergate, a Las Vegas kingpin, and ultimately a bizarre recluse whose final years and shocking death were cloaked in macabre mystery. In this fascinating, revelation-packed biography, the full story of one of the most daring, enigmatic, and reclusive power brokers America has ever known is finally told.. Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Now he is the subject of Martin Scorsese's biopic The Aviator. Few people have been able to penetrate the wall of secrecy that enshrouded this complex man