Citizen Hughes

图书标准信息

• 作者 Michael Drosnin 著
• 出版社 Random House US
• 出版时间 2004-11
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780767919340
• 定价 247.30元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 544页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

PortrayedbyLeonardoDiCapriointheMartinScorsesemovieTheAviator,HowardHughesislegendaryasaplayboyandpilot—butheisnotoriousforwhathebecame:theultimatemysteryman.CitizenHughesistheNewYorkTimesbestsellingexposéofHughes’shiddenlife,andastunningrevelationofhis“megalomaniacempireintheemperor’sownwords”(Newsweek).

Attheheightofhiswealth,power,andinvisibility,theworld’srichestandmostsecretivemankeptwhatamountedtoadiary.Thebillionairecommandedhisempirebycorrespondence,scrawlingthousandsofhandwrittenmemostounseenhenchmen.ItwastheonlytimeHowardHughesriskedwritingdownhisorders,plans,thoughts,fears,anddesires.Hughesclaimedthepapersweresosensitive—“theverymostconfidential,almostsacredinformationastomyinnermostactivities”—thatnotevenhismosttrustedaidesorexecutiveswereallowedtokeepthemessageshesentthem.Butintheearly-morninghoursofJune5,1974,unknownburglarsstagedadaringbreak-inatHughes’ssupposedlyimpregnableheadquartersandescapedwithalltheconfidentialfiles.Despiteatop-secretFBIinvestigationandamillion-dollarCIAbuybackbid,noneofthestolensecretpaperswereeverfound—untilinvestigativereporterMichaelDrosnincrackedthecase.
InCitizenHughes,DrosninrevealsthetruestoryofthegreatHughesheist—andoftherealHowardHughes.Basedonnearlytenthousandnever-before-publisheddocuments,morethanthreethousandinHughes’sownhandwriting,CitizenHughesisfarmorethanabiography,orevenanunwillingautobiography.Itisastartlingrecordofthesecrethistoryofourtimes.

,

【作者简介】

MICHAELDROSNIN,aformerreporterforTheWashingtonPostandTheWallStreetJournal,isalsotheauthoroftwootherNewYorkTimesbestsellers,TheBibleCodeandBibleCodeII:TheCountdown.Hespentsevenyearsresearchingandwritingthisclassicaccountofpowergonemad.DrosninlivesandworksinNewYork.