Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters : The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire - Softcover

Hack, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893224643 ISBN 13: 9781893224643

Publisher: New Millenium, 2002

Synopsis

Drawing on Hughes's personal diary entries and letters, the author presents an intimate look at the life, personal nature, and work of the private and eccentric billionaire businessman.

About this title

About the Author:

Hack has been an investigative writer for 20 years, covering Hollywood and the media for much of that time. He frequently appears on television as a commentator.

From AudioFile:

Richard Hack gives us a brilliant portrait of America's first billionaire, painting the life of the legendary man who was at once an aeronaut, film producer, playboy, and recluse. Despite the book's subtitle, this reading has very little in the way of diary, memo, or personal correspondences. What it does provide is a fascinating, perplexing, sometimes disturbing portrait of Howard Hughes. Dan Cashman's reading is welcoming and unobtrusive, although at times it comes across as weary. Cashman reads in a strict documentary style that sometimes belies the lifestyle of the dramatic and paradoxical Hughes as he passes between lucidity and madness--from sexual promiscuity to a phobic avoidance of people, daylight, and germs. A fascinating, captivating listen. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: New Millenium
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1893224643
• ISBN 13: 9781893224643
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456