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Indlæser... Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness (udgave 2004)af Donald L. Barlett (Forfatter)
Work InformationHoward Hughes: His Life and Madness af Donald L. Barlett
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   MasseyLibrary | Oct 13, 2022 |  The thing that struck me most about Hughes, who died well before I was born, is that his persona still lives on as a great, eccentric, rich aviator. He was actually a horrible person whose stubbornness and indecision ran nearly every company that he started into the ground and bankrupted businesses that he purchased. He also manipulated the government nearly to the extent that Republicans do today, all so that he could avoid paying taxes and appear to be a "good guy." He wasn't that great of a pilot, he was a horrible businessperson, and he was a terrible human. I read the 1979 version of this book. I was left curious if the Hughes estate had been settled... apparently in 2010 it finally finished going through rounds and rounds of litigation. His death seemed to bring about the worst in the people who could have had a piece of the pie. (  ) lemontwist | Sep 5, 2020 | I appreciate the authors' effort to collect all the details about the people and the events related, or not related, to Mr. Hughes. But, please, I don't need so much information. A lot of them are useless for me to understand him. Putting all of them into a big book is just wasting of money and reader's time. Another thing I hate this book is I don't believe that Howard Hughes was all bad. Why did the author spend more time to discuss how Howard Hughes successfully build his empire? The empire was not remarkable, but still, it was impressive, right? (  ) zhliu0124 | Aug 7, 2017 |  )1  |  Stmurdock | Jul 17, 2016 | gilsbooks | May 18, 2011 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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. No library descriptions found. |
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