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Howard Hughes and
... women
... Hemingway
.. . worst plane crash
... Nixon
... billionaire power
Howard Hughes
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Clifford Irving!
The New York Times Book Review
called him " a born storyteller," Caroline See in the
Los Angeles Times lauded him as "a master,"
and Ernest Lehman named him "among the giants of contemporary
literature."
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NOT FOR SALE IN
BOOK STORES
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Film rights to The Hoax, Clifford Irving's fascinating firsthand account of all that happened, were optioned by Mark Gordon (producer of Saving Private Ryan) and the Mutual Film Company.
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"The most daring literary
caper of all time."
-Newsweek
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Nixon/Watergate Link?
"The account of the Hughes-Nixon dealings in Irving's book
was quoted in an unpublished Senate Watergate Committee
report. H.R. Haldeman started getting FBI reports on the Irving
affair directly from J. Edgar Hoover, and in early 1972
the White House managed to obtain a copy of the still-secret
manuscript from a source at McGraw-Hill ..."
"Nixon read at least a summary of Irving's account. It came as quite a shock. The $400,000 figure [which Irving had only guessed at] was probably not far off the mark." The secret figure was so close to fact, John Ehrlichman later suggested, that the Hunt-Liddy team was sent to burglarize National Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate in order to discover what Irving might have told the Democrats about the Hughes-Nixon loans. The infamous 17-minute "gap" in the Nixon White House tapes allegedly dealt with that specific subject..."from the 1985 biography, Citizen Hughes, by Michael
Drosnin
The Full Story
In January 1972, the conservative McGraw-Hill
Book Company announced the imminent publication of The Autobiography
of Howard Hughes: Introduction & Commentary by Clifford
Irving.
Locked in battle with Paul Getty and the Sultan of Brunei
for the title of "richest man in the world,"
Howard Hughes was world-famous as a moviemaker (Hell's Angels,
The Outlaw, Stromboli), record-breaking test pilot, and lover of several dozen Hollywood movie stars. He designed the fighter plane that became the Japanese Zero. Against all odds, he flew his "Spruce Goose," by far the biggest plane in the world. Six times he crashed in experimental airplanes. He openly defied the U.S. Senate in its postwar witch hunts....read the full story here
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