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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Howard Hughes His Life and Madness
Author: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
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. 80 photographs. Originally publ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393326024
ISBN-10: 0393326020
Publication Date: 9/30/2004
Pages: 687
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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"Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best." - New York Times

"The life that inspired the major motion picture" - from the cover

Hughes was involved in nearly every aspect of American productivity from the oil fields to the movies to the airplanes involved in WWII and later commercial flying. Watergate was about stealing a file concerning his contributions.


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