Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
by Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0233971696
- ISBN 13
- 9780233971698
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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Content appears as unread & unblemished in very good red boards displaying minor surface/edge wear. Slight bump head/heel of spine with small scuff. Has more pages that others that I have looked up.
Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.
Hughes had always been different. Raised by overprotective parents, pathologically fearful of germs, in awe of his father, unable to make friends, he grew into a man ruled by madness. Certainly his riches set him apart. But he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans World Airlines, a critically-important defense contractor, Hollywood's most pursued, and elusive, bachelor, and partner of the United States government.
This is an epic biography of an epic figure, who bestrode the world like a colossus, yet could not master himself.
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5925-110121
- Title
- Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
- Author
- Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated, Presumed 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0233971696
- ISBN 13
- 9780233971698
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton Co
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 766 Rough Cut Pages,
- Size
- Oversize
- Keywords
- Bio
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