Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters Seasons Jake—and never saw him again

Jake—and never saw him again

and an inspiring chapteron how our great-grandparents preserved their stories under impossibly difficult circumstances

“The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story

this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco

Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters Seasons Jake—and never saw him againSporting a somewhat mysterious subtitle, as billionaire recluse Howard Hughes seems not to have kept any diaries, this biography tells the story of the man who built a huge economic empire and carried on affairs with numerous starlets, only to grow increasingly mentally unstable in his older years. Journalist Hack relies on letters, declassified F. B. I. files, memos, and the recollections of Hughes business partner, Robert Maheu, whose autobiography