Howard Hughes: A chronology
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Websites
The Aviator vs the Real Howard Hughes
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=4233394
US National Public Radio's Kim Masters compares the real life of playboy tycoon Howard Hughes to the version offered in the new Martin Scorsese film The Aviator. Audio; a transcript can be purchased.
Aviator Howard Hughes and His Racer
www.wrightools.com/hughes/chap1.htm
First chapter of a book on Hughes by Dennis Parker, in which the H-1, his racing plane, is tested for the first time in 1935. The main H-1 Racer site has photos of the reproduction aircraft that was featured in The Aviator, plus other useful links.
Evergreen Aviation Museum
www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html
Article on and pictures of the ‘Spruce Goose’, on the website of the museum that is now its home.
Howard Hughes
www.famoustexans.com/howardhughes.htm
Irreverent entry on the Famous Texans website.
Howard Hughes
www.socalhistory.org/Socalhistory.org%20_mainfolder/
Biographies/Hughes_Howard/Howard_hughes.htm
Essay on Hughes on the website of the Historical Society of Southern California, centring on Hughes’ activities in that state.
Howard Hughes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
Detailed biography of Hughes, with lots of quirky details.
The Howard Hughes Corporation
www.howardhughes.com
Website of the property development company based in southern Nevada, the remains of Hughes’ empire in that state. The site has a biography of the tycoon.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
www.hhmi.org
Official website of the medical institute created by Howard Hughes in 1953. The history section of the site emphasises the research element of the institute and ignores any negative implications of Hughes’ supposed philanthropy.
Terry Moore
www.terrymoore.com/
See the woman who insists that she was Mrs Howard Hughes (and continues to use his name ...).
Books
Citizen Hughes: In his own words, how Howard Hughes tried to buy America by Michael Drosnin (Broadway Books, new edition 2004)
Hard-hitting biography of the tycoon. Includes information from the ‘secret’ documents stolen from Hughes in 1974.
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Howard Hughes: His life and madness by Donald L Bartlett and James L Steele (Carlton Books, new edition 2003)
‘Of all the books written about Howard Hughes, [this] is easily the best ...’ New York Times. Originally published as Empire: The life, legend and madness of Howard Hughes (1976).
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Howard Hughes: Aviator by George J Marrett (Naval Institute Press, 2004)
Marrett, a test pilot for Howard Hughes, gives an insider's account of the aviation genius who set speed records in the 1930s and went on to develop some of the US's most famous aircraft and weapons.
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Howard Hughes: The secret life by Charles Higham (Virgin Books, new edition 2004)
Reveals the private scandals behind Hughes' public persona, his affairs with Hollywood stars (both male and female), his abuse of wives and lovers, his ruthless and dishonest behaviour in business and his sensational involvement in Watergate. Finally it uncovers the many years spent as an eccentric recluse, controlling his vast business empire unseen by the outside world, his death from a mysterious illness and the arguments concerning his will.
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Howard Hughes: The untold story by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H Broeske (Time Warner Paperbacks, 2004)
This unveils the full story of the tycoon, tracing his efforts to reshape Hollywood, his devastating health problems, his erratic behaviour during his last decades and his tangle of steamy relationships with stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner and Ginger Rogers. It draws on hundreds of exclusive interviews and documents charting his troubled family relationships, drug addiction, secret harem of teenage mistresses and the part he played in the Watergate scandal.
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I Was Howard Hughes by Steven Carter (Bloomsbury, 2003)
Carter gives the Howard Hughes legend a new treatment, creating a fictional
biographer, Alton Reece, to tell a fictional story about this real man, using
as sources an invented and entirely fictional bibliography. The fictional
Reece interviews Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Jean Peters and other Hughes contacts,
filling the novel with detail as he personalises the reclusive Hughes.
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Next to Hughes: Behind the power and tragic downfall of Howard Hughes by his closest adviser by Robert Maheu and Richard Hack (HarperCollins, 1992). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
The former FBI ‘spook’ reveals all ... or does he?
