Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness [Paperback]

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 titleNow the full story of the life and death of Howard Hughes has been published, told not as cheap gossip but as a dazzlingly reported, hard-nosed account...[A] fat, beautifully researched book.By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus yet could not command himself. It is the story of a man who had everythingand nothing.Donald Barlett and James Steele ofOf all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best...the first fully documented, crade-to-grave account of a unique American life.[The authors] have made an impressive use of documents to fashion this longest, most responsible and authoritative biography of Hughes to date.The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.