Howard Hughes His Life and Madness

Name: Howard Hughes His Life and Madness
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ISBN: 9780393326024

ISBN-10: 0393326020

ISBN-13: 9780393326024

Edition: 2004

Authors: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.30" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Death in Mexico



The Early Years


The Family


The Rock Eater


Mother


Tragedy


Power Play



Hollywood


The Legend Begins


Celebrities and Censors



Hero


Young Man in a Hurry


Record Breaker


Race Around the World



The War Years


The "Hate Hughes Club"


Strange Bedfellows


The Flying Boat


"An Awful Smell"



The Senate Investigation


The XF-11 Crash


Circus on the Potomac


Surprise Flight



Movies, Missiles, and Communists


The RKO Takeover


Turnabout


The Red Menace



Revolt at Culver City


"A Hell of a Mess"


Another Bosom Brouhaha


The Counterfeit Charity


Political Insurance



Seeds of Disaster


The Rise of the Mormons


The $400-Million Order


Where Is the Money?



Breakdown


Mysterious Marriage


Crisis


Asylum


Showdown with Wall Street



Retreat


TWA v. Hughes


The Germ War


Manhunt


The Victor and the Spoils



A New Career


The Guest Who Overstayed


Maheu's Old Friend


April Fool's Day



Lord of the Desert


Las Vegas on $178,000 a Day


The Public-Relations Blitz


Masterplan


Warning from Washington



Out of Control


A Rival


The Emperor's Lieutenants


A Grave Conspiracy


A Nose for News


Boxcar



The $90-Million Mistake


Helicopters


The Lobbying Coup


The "Buy-in"



The Billion-Dollar Deal


Merely a Millionaire


Cornering a Market


A Hughes Lesson



The Hijacking of Air West


"Air Worst"


Squeeze Play


Washington's Rubber Stamp



Gold Fever


"Comstock Shares Showed Moderate Gains"


A Parade of Prospectors


A Pig in a Poke?


The President's Brother


The Sting



Turning Point


Rumblings


Ouster


The Empire Changes Hands



The Political Connection


"I Can Buy Any Man in the World"


The Secret Investment


The Secret Mission and Secret Alliance



Life in Exile


Hoax


The $350-Million Giveaway


Invalid



Watergate


Under Fire


The Hughes Connection


The Well-Wired Source



Hughesgate


"The Bastille"


The Million-Dollar Burglary



The Cia's Best-Kept Secret


Project Jennifer


The Mell Stewart Problem


Cover Story



The Last Year


The Legacy


The Last Fight


The Candyman


Where Is the Will?



The Fight for the Fortune


Cover-up


The Mormon Will


Fallout


Death by Negligence?


Epilogue: A Summing Up


Chronology


Appendices


Sources


Notes


Index