Citizen Hughes MICHAEL DROSNIN
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2004.
ISBN: 0767919343
DDC: 338.767092
LCC: CT275
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
"At the height of his wealth, power, and invisibility, the world's
richest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. The
billionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawling
thousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the only
time Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts,
fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were so sensitive -
"the very most confidential, almost sacred information as to my
innermost activities" - that not even his most trusted aides or
executives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them. But in the
early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars staged a daring
break-in at Hughes's supposedly impregnable headquarters and escaped
with all the confidential files. Despite a top-secret FBI
investigation and a million-dollar CIA buyback bid, none of the
stolen secret papers were ever found - until investigative reporter
Michael Drosnin cracked the case." "In Citizen Hughes, Drosnin
reveals the true story of the great Hughes heist - and of the real
Howard Hughes. Based on nearly ten thousand never-before-published
documents, more than three thousand in Hughes's own handwriting,
Citizen Hughes is more than a biography, or even an unwilling
autobiography. It is a record of the secret history of our
times."--BOOK JACKET.
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