Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes
Author : Noah Dietrich
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1976
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ISBN : 9780449136522
Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes
Author : Noah Dietrich
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1976
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ISBN :
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Author : Donald L. Barlett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393078582
Book Description
The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.
Howard Hughes
Author : George J Marrett
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1682470377
Book Description
George J. Marrett, a former test pilot for aviator Howard Hughes, separates fact from fiction to tell the inside story of the genius who set flight speed records in the 1930s and went on to develop some of America’s most famous aircraft and weapons. The author draws on his wealth of experiences and those of other Hughes confidants to take readers inside Hughes’s complex and clandestine world. Marrett integrates stories of Hughes the ace pilot with Hughes the designer and businessman who became America’s first billionaire.
Howard Hughes
Author : Darwin Porter
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780974811819
Book Description
Set amid descriptions of the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes's birth in 1905 and his death in 1976, this book gives an insider's perspective about what money can buy, and what it can't.
Next to Hughes
Author : Robert Maheu
Publisher : HarperPrism
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1993-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061090332
Book Description
Nobody was closer to the source of Howard Hughes's vast influence than Robert Maheu, and nobody witnessed his catastrophic descent more closely. Maheu made all Hughes's business deals and represented him and his holdings to the outside world for 13 years. Now he tells the shocking true story behind the life and death of this powerful man. Photographs.
I Caught Flies for Howard Huges
Author : Ron Kistler
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1977
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Howard Hughes
Author : Peter Harry Brown
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306813924
Book Description
Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. 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. 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. 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.
Hughes After Howard
Author : D. Kenneth Richardson
Publisher : Seahill Press Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Aircraft industry
ISBN : 9780970805089
Book Description
"People everywhere have heard of the eccentric Howard Hughes, but few know that in 1953 he virtually disappeared from the company he had begun in 1932. Under new, creative, and inspired management, Hughes Aircraft Company became the leading military electronics organization in the world and rose to 85,000 employees. Some called it a national treasure. In this new 496-page book, Hughes Aircraft Company's past president Ken Richardson shows how this was done. Collaborating with over 60 past employees, Ken has compiled this remarkable piece of American aviation history. Learn about many complex products in all fields of electronics crafted by this highly motivated, inventive team."--Publisher's website.
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
Author : Charles Higham
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466853158
Book Description
Adapted to a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, The Aviator stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes! His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Charles Higham's biography tells the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma. Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his descent into madness. Bestselling biographer Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes: * his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and numerous others * his forays into sadomasochism * his involvement with Richard Nixon and Watergate * his bizarre final years This is a compelling portrait of a unique American figure--in a story as revealing as it is unforgettable.
