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Howard Hughes

Peter Harry Brown

Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing intriguing and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation a genius inventor an ace pilot a matinee-idol-handsome playboy a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens a sexual sultan with a harem of teenage consorts a political insider with intimate ties to Watergate a Las Vegas kingpin and ultimately a bizarre recluse whose final years and shocking death were cloaked in macabre mystery. Now he is the subject of Martin Scorsese's biopic The Aviator. Few people have been able to penetrate the wall of secrecy that enshrouded this complex man. In this fascinating revelation-packed biography the full story of one of the most daring enigmatic and reclusive power brokers America has ever known is finally told.>

  • Classification : General Non-Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 3, 2004
  • Imprint : Perseus Books
  • Page Extent : 528
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780306813924
  • Price : INR 1,520
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Peter Harry Brown

Peter Harry Brown is with Pat H. Broeske the author of Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley. He is a journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Marilyn: The Last Take.

Formerly with the Los Angeles Times Pat H. Broeske is a veteran entertainment reporter who writes for Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times. Like Brown Broeske lives in southern California.

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