Citizen Hughes / Michael Drosnin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 532 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0030418461 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/67/0924
  • 338.7/67/0924 19
LOC classification:
  • CT275.H6678 D74 1985
Abstract: Citizen Hughes (Howard Hughes). He bought politicians, but never voted. He railed bitterly against taxes, but paid none at all for seventeen consecutive years. His empire produced strategic weapons of the nuclear age, but he fought atomic testing in his own backyard. He tried to buy the government of the United States, but instead helped to bring it down.
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Book Book Stonewall Biography B Hughes DRO 1985 1 Available 7830045041

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citizen Hughes (Howard Hughes). He bought politicians, but never voted. He railed bitterly against taxes, but paid none at all for seventeen consecutive years. His empire produced strategic weapons of the nuclear age, but he fought atomic testing in his own backyard. He tried to buy the government of the United States, but instead helped to bring it down.

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