Howard Hughes: The Untold Story by Peter Harry Brown
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A fascinating, thoroughly researched and detailed exegesis of the mysterious and impactful life of Howard Hughes. Being brain-damaged, syphillitic, and enslaved by OCD would be a debilitating condition for you and I, probably leading to institutionalized. For the charismatic genius Hughes, it was merely crippling and it took six decades to do him in while surrounded by Mormons and sycophants. Along the way, the satyr chased skirts (Katherine Hepburn to Ava Gardner and beyond), kept a virtual harem, advanced aviation from military to commercial and built the family oil drill tooling fortune to a billion dollar fortune where he held sway over a vast empire that included an airline, entertainment studios, casinos, and more.
Probably among the most revealing exposes here (if among the most thinly documented) is that Nixon's famous recording deletion covered damaging admission to Hughes' money going into Nixon's pockets.
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