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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published: Nov 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $17.95
Pages: 532
Based on a selection of more than ten thousand internal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, a revealing biography of the enigmatic Howard Hughes and his empire reveals his innermost activities and how he tried to buy the American government. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (Coinciding with the Warner Bros. film, The Aviator, releasing December 2004, starring Leonardo di Caprio)
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