《Citizen Hughes : The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man Portrayed in the》是一本Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Michael Drosnin。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Citizen Hughes : The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man Portrayed in the
- 作者：Michael Drosnin
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780767919340
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movieThe Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy andpilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mysteryman. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestsellingexposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation of his“megalomaniac empire in the emperor’s own words”(Newsweek).
At the height of his wealth, power, and invisibility, the world’srichest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. Thebillionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawlingthousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the onlytime Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts,fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were sosensitive—“the very most confidential, almost sacred information asto my innermost activities”—that not even his most trusted aides orexecutives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them. Butin the early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars stageda daring break-in at Hughes’s supposedly impregnable headquartersand escaped with all the confidential files. Despite a top-secretFBI investigation and a million-dollar CIA buyback bid, none of thestolen secret papers were ever found—until investigative reporterMichael Drosnin cracked the case.
In Citizen Hughes, Drosnin reveals the true story of thegreat Hughes heist—and of the real Howard Hughes. Based on nearlyten thousand never-before-published documents, more than threethousand in Hughes’s own handwriting, Citizen Hughes is farmore than a biography, or even an unwilling autobiography. It is astartling record of the secret history of our times.
作者簡介
MICHAEL DROSNIN, a former reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, is also the author of two other New York Times bestsellers, The Bible Code and Bible Code II: The Countdown. He spent seven years researching and writing this classic account of power gone mad. Drosnin lives and works in New York.
