Howard Hughes PA

Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes .

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Time editors-at-large, are the only journalists in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards

Preface

11

(4)

Acknowledgments

15

(4)

Prologue: Death in Mexico

19

(7)

The Early Years

26

(34)

The Family

26

(6)

The Rock Eater

32

(6)

Mother

38

(7)

Tragedy

45

(8)

Power Play

53

(7)

Hollywood

60

(15)

The Legend Begins

60

(9)

Celebrities and Censors

69

(6)

Hero

75

(30)

Young Man in a Hurry

75

(6)

Record Breaker

81

(7)

Race Around the World

88

(17)

The War Years

105

(30)

The ``Hate Hughes Club''

105

(8)

Strange Bedfellows

113

(5)

The Flying Boat

118

(7)

``An Awful Smell''

125

(10)

The Senate Investigation

135

(26)

The XF-11 Crash

135

(10)

Circus on the Potomac

145

(11)

Surprise Flight

156

(5)

Movies, Missiles, and Communists

161

(25)

The RKO Takeover

161

(9)

Turnabout

170

(8)

The Red Menace

178

(8)

Revolt at Culver City

186

(22)

``A Hell of a Mess''

186

(9)

Another Bosom Brouhaha

195

(3)

The Counterfeit Charity

198

(4)

Political Insurance

202

(6)

Seeds of Disaster

208

(18)

The Rise of the Mormons

208

(7)

The $400-Million Order

215

(8)

Where Is the Money?

223

(3)

Breakdown

226

(24)

Mysterious Marriage

226

(4)

Crisis

230

(5)

Asylum

235

(5)

Showdown with Wall Street

240

(10)

Retreat

250

(26)

TWA v. Hughes

250

(10)

The Germ War

260

(6)

Manhunt

266

(4)

The Victor and the Spoils

270

(6)

A New Career

276

(20)

The Guest Who Overstayed

276

(5)

Maheu's Old Friend

281

(6)

April Fool's Day

287

(9)

Lord of the Desert

296

(21)

Las Vegas on $178,000 a Day

296

(7)

The Public-Relations Blitz

303

(5)

Masterplan

308

(3)

Warning from Washington

311

(6)

Out of Control

317

(31)

A Rival

317

(7)

The Emperor's Lieutenants

324

(6)

A Grave Conspiracy

330

(5)

A Nose for News

335

(4)

Boxcar

339

(9)

The $90-Million Mistake

348

(17)

Helicopters

348

(4)

The Lobbying Coup

352

(7)

The ``Buy-in''

359

(6)

The Billion-Dollar Deal

365

(16)

Merely a Millionaire

365

(3)

Cornering a Market

368

(7)

A Hughes Lesson

375

(6)

The Hijacking of Air West

381

(17)

``Air Worst''

381

(5)

Squeeze Play

386

(6)

Washington's Rubber Stamp

392

(6)

Gold Fever

398

(25)

``Comstock Shares Showed Moderate Gains''

398

(4)

A Parade of Prospectors

402

(3)

A Pig in a Poke?

405

(5)

The President's Brother

410

(4)

The Sting

414

(9)

Turning Point

423

(25)

Rumblings

423

(7)

Ouster

430

(10)

The Empire Changes Hands

440

(8)

The Political Connection

448

(19)

``I Can Buy Any Man in the World''

448

(6)

The Secret Investment

454

(3)

The Secret Mission and Secret Alliance

457

(10)

Life in Exile

467

(27)

Hoax

467

(9)

The $350-Million Giveaway

476

(9)

Invalid

485

(9)

Watergate

494

(23)

Under Fire

494

(6)

The Hughes Connection

500

(9)

The Well-Wired Source

509

(8)

Hughesgate

517

(17)

``The Bastille''

517

(5)

The Million-Dollar Burglary

522

(12)

ThE CIA'S Best-Kept Secret

534

(16)

Project Jennifer

534

(3)

The Mell Stewart Problem

537

(3)

Cover Story

540

(10)

The Last Year

550

(30)

The Legacy

550

(8)

The Last Fight

558

(5)

The Candyman

563

(6)

Where Is the Will?

569

(11)

The Fight for the Fortune

580

(42)

Cover-up

580

(11)

The Mormon Will

591

(15)

Fallout

606

(8)

Death by Negligence?

614

(8)

Epilogue: A Summing Up

622

(7)

Chronology

629

(4)

Appendices

633

(8)

Sources

641

(4)

Notes

645

(26)

Index

671

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