“…Presentation of medal to Howard Hughes…”
Connect to this title via ProQuest

“…Howard Hughes affair…”

Subjects: Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents: Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed)

Table of Contents: Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents: “…Napoleon Bonaparte -- Walt Disney -- Isadora Duncan -- Amelia Earhart -- Adolf Hitler -- Howard Hughes -- Maria Montessori -- Rupert Murdoch -- Edith Piaf -- Pablo Picasso -- Helena Rubinstein -- Marquis de Sade -- Nikola Tesla -- Frank Lloyd Wright.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lineage -- Formal years -- Hard-boiled Huggins -- The lady with the torch -- Howard Hughes Radio Pictures -- Paranoia and discord -- Transition -- Shady dealings -- Trouble at Fox -- Guilty until proven innocent -- Escape from tomorrow -- One step ahead -- Fallow ground -- Revolving doors -- Best sellers -- rejuvenation -- Denouement -- The works of Roy Huggins -- Chapter notes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Executive summary -- Introduction -- Program goals -- Scientific goals -- Mapping and sequencing the human genome -- Model organisms -- Informatics: data collection and analysis -- Ethical, legal, and social considerations -- Research training -- Technology development -- Technology transfer -- Implementation -- Administration of research -- Role of NIH and DOE -- Role of other Federal Agencies -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute -- Internationl collaboration -- Budget -- Appendices -- Glossary…”

Table of Contents: “…Organized crime and corruption in the Truman administration -- Anti-communism : mobsters, the FBI, and the China lobby -- The Dominican connection : dictators, mobsters, and Caribbean intrigues -- The friends of LBJ -- I : Bobby Baker and the mob -- The friends of LBJ -- II : the Murchisons -- Henry Crown, the Chicago Outfit, and the TFX scandal -- President Nixon and the mob, 1969-1974 -- Nixon, Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the mob : the road to Watergate -- From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.…”

Table of Contents: “…Parents -- Hartford -- Fenwick -- Bryn Mawr -- Luddy -- Early career -- The warrior's husband -- First trip to Hollywood -- Early films -- The return to New York -- The lake -- George Cukor -- Leland -- Howard Hughes -- Hurricane -- L. B. Mayer -- Movies -- Shakespeare -- Spencer -- Memorial Day -- Willie rose and his Maserati -- The corn is green -- Phyllis -- Brief encounter -- Voice -- Eyes -- Happy New Year -- Love -- Leaving the California house -- Dear Spence -- Climbing the ladder-with help.…”
Publisher description

View this video online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Not-quite-white enterprise in the tribal twenties: The great Gatsby -- Inventing the American dream in the Great Depression: The epic of America -- The ends of self-making. Image, inc.: Howard Hughes, Lee Iacocca, and Ross Perot -- Downsizing: Susan Powter and Oprah Winfrey -- Epilogue: the return of the self-made man.…”