“A story of breadth and depth, scope and flavor . . . A
terrifying portrait of power gone berserk.” —Chicago
Tribune
“Reveals a Howard Hughes who is far more evil than we might have
known before.” —New York Times
“Direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man.”
—Time
“Sensational: one of the best ''truth is stranger than fiction''
stories of all time.”
—Liz Smith
“Remarkable . . . the mysterious Howard
內容簡介：
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie
The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and
pilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery
man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling
exposé 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’s
richest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. The
billionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawling
thousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the only
time Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts,
fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were so
sensitive—“the very most confidential, almost sacred information as
to my innermost activities”—that not even his most trusted aides or
executives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them.But
in the early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars staged
a daring break-in at Hughes’s supposedly impregnable headquarters
and escaped with all the confidential files. Despite a top-secret
FBI investigation and a million-dollar CIA buyback bid, none of the
stolen secret papers were ever found—until investigative reporter
Michael Drosnin cracked the case.
In Citizen Hughes, Drosnin reveals the true story of the
great Hughes heist—and of the real Howard Hughes. Based on nearly
ten thousand never-before-published documents, more than three
thousand in Hughes’s own handwriting, Citizen Hughes is far
more than a biography, or even an unwilling autobiography. It is a
startling record of the secret history of our times.
關於作者：
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.
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