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Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man Portrayed in the Movie "The Aviator"
 
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Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man Portrayed in the Movie "The Aviator" (Paperback)

by Michael Drosnin (Author), Howard Hughes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del; New title edition (Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0767919343
  • ISBN-13: 978-0767919340
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,324,329 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Based on a selection of more than ten thousand internal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, a revealing biography of the enigmatic Howard Hughes and his empire reveals his innermost activities and how he tried to buy the Am

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating insight into madness, 18 April 2009
It could be argued that this book only covers the last sad years of Howard Hughes, when his greatest achievements in aviation and film-making were behind him. In fact, it gives an amazing insight into how the man's mind worked and his view of the world. From trying to derail the US atomic weapons programme to fretting over a kiddies Easter Egg hunt in one of his Las Vegas casinos, this is Howard Hughes in his own words. The Easter Egg hunt - apparently - was a front for a "militant group" to "stage a really viscious(sic) all out juvenile riot at our Easter party".

Some of this is laughable (or would be if we didn't know the writer was seriously mentally ill). Other aspects are far more sinister: his racial views and his determination that any man and any political office can be had for a price - including the Presidency itself.

This is the Howard Hughes we were never supposed to know about. The lunatic is paying for the asylum and the insanity becomes the reality. Fascinating reading.
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