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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-012.mrc:85736902:4644
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050 00 $aCT275.H6678$bB37 2004
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100 1 $aBarlett, Donald L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79011311
240 10 $aEmpire$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004034727
245 10 $aHoward Hughes :$bhis life & madness /$cDonald L. Barlett and James B. Steele.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c2004.
300 $a687 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published as: Empire. 1st ed. c1979.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [641]-643) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: Death in Mexico -- $g1.$tThe Early Years -- $tThe Family -- $tThe Rock Eater -- $tMother -- $tTragedy -- $tPower Play -- $g2.$tHollywood -- $tThe Legend Begins -- $tCelebrities and Censors -- $g3.$tHero -- $tYoung Man in a Hurry -- $tRecord Breaker -- $tRace Around the World -- $g4.$tThe War Years -- $tThe "Hate Hughes Club" -- $tStrange Bedfellows -- $tThe Flying Boat -- $t"An Awful Smell" -- $g5.$tThe Senate Investigation -- $tThe XF-11 Crash -- $tCircus on the Potomac -- $tSurprise Flight -- $g6.$tMovies, Missiles, and Communists -- $tThe RKO Takeover -- $tTurnabout -- $tThe Red Menace -- $g7.$tRevolt at Culver City -- $t"A Hell of a Mess" -- $tAnother Bosom Brouhaha -- $tThe Counterfeit Charity -- $tPolitical Insurance -- $g8.$tSeeds of Disaster -- $tThe Rise of the Mormons -- $tThe $400-Million Order -- $tWhere Is the Money? -- $g9.$tBreakdown -- $tMysterious Marriage -- $tCrisis -- $tAsylum -- $tShowdown with Wall Street -- $g10.$tRetreat -- $tTWA v. Hughes -- $tThe Germ War -- $tManhunt -- $tThe Victor and the Spoils -- $g11.$tA New Career -- $tThe Guest Who Overstayed -- $tMaheu's Old Friend -- $tApril Fool's Day -- $g12.$tLord of the Desert -- $tLas Vegas on $178,000 a Day -- $tThe Public-Relations Blitz -- $tMasterplan -- $tWarning from Washington -- $g13.$tOut of Control -- $tA Rival -- $tThe Emperor's Lieutenants -- $tA Grave Conspiracy -- $tA Nose for News -- $tBoxcar -- $g14.$tThe $90-Million Mistake -- $tHelicopters -- $tThe Lobbying Coup -- $tThe "Buy-in" -- $g15.$tThe Billion-Dollar Deal -- $tMerely a Millionaire -- $tCornering a Market -- $tA Hughes Lesson -- $g16.$tThe Hijacking of Air West -- $t"Air Worst" -- $tSqueeze Play -- $tWashington's Rubber Stamp -- $g17.$tGold Fever -- $t"Comstock Shares Showed Moderate Gains" -- $tA Parade of Prospectors -- $tA Pig in a Poke? -- $tThe President's Brother -- $tThe Sting -- $g18.$tTurning Point -- $tRumblings -- $tOuster -- $tThe Empire Changes Hands -- $g19.$tThe Political Connection -- $t"I Can Buy Any Man in the World" -- $tThe Secret Investment -- $tThe Secret Mission and Secret Alliance -- $g20.$tLife in Exile -- $tHoax -- $tThe $350-Million Giveaway -- $tInvalid -- $g21.$tWatergate -- $tUnder Fire -- $tThe Hughes Connection -- $tThe Well-Wired Source -- $g22.$tHughesgate -- $t"The Bastille" -- $tThe Million-Dollar Burglary -- $g23.$tThe Cia's Best-Kept Secret -- $tProject Jennifer -- $tThe Mell Stewart Problem -- $tCover Story -- $g24.$tThe Last Year -- $tThe Legacy -- $tThe Last Fight -- $tThe Candyman -- $tWhere Is the Will? -- $g25.$tThe Fight for the Fortune -- $tCover-up -- $tThe Mormon Will -- $tFallout -- $tDeath by Negligence?
520 1 $a"Aviator, Playboy, Film Producer, Entrepreneur, and Recluse, Howard Hughes lived a life that was the stuff of headlines. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele's biography is an extraordinary and brilliantly researched work on Hughes's multiple careers; his romances with Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, and Rita Hayworth; and his turn away from the world into addictions and secrecy. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHughes, Howard,$d1905-1976.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043370
650 0 $aCelebrities$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100237
650 0 $aBusinesspeople$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007102267
650 0 $aMillionaires$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107807
700 1 $aSteele, James B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79011358
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