Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Robert Sherrill, Nation
The perfect biography of the weirdest, most fascinating, most god-awful corporate creature you will ever encounter in broad daylight.


John Justin Smith, Chicago Sun-Times
A dazzlingly reported, hard-nosed account...[A] fat, beautifully researched book.


Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
[The] longest, most responsible and authoritative biography of Hughes to date.


Publishers Weekly
A remarkable job of investigative reporting...a ruthlessly probing 688-page blockbuster biography.


John Barkham Reviews
By far the soundest, fairest and fullest book we have on the bizarre billionaire who commanded the fortunes of Croesus.


Ted Morgan, New York Times Book Review
Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best.


Book Description
The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. 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. 80 photographs. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.


About the Author
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Time editors-at-large, are the only journalists in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards. They live in Philadelphia.


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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.


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