When his overprotective mother died in 1922 and his workaholic father two years later, Hughes became heir to the Hughes Tool Company fortune - then valued at half a million dollars - at nineteen years of age. But do it in such a way where even the smallest facet is both fascinating and lures the reader deeper down the path. In his book Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire, author Richard Hack has been able to juggle a few difficult objectives. He has supplied a never ending minutia of detail about the man - from specifics of Hughes’ father in the late 1800’s through day to day accounts of the man himself. And after that - the details become foggy. We know he was a test pilot, a record holding aviator and we know he was a famous recluse in his later years. We know that Howard Hughes was the wealthiest man in the country. There are certain names in American history that we have a vague knowledge of.
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