Howard hughes, famous bier and sportsman, was dragged out of this wreckage of an experimental plane he was testing. Hughes survived multiple plane crashes, including one where he crashed into a house in beverly hills and nearly died. There's something tragic about hughes. Orphaned, lonely, compulsive, damaged. Do you think that he had a kind of was suffering from some kind of mental illness throughout his life?
A billionaire turned recluse befriends a minor novelist. Together they seize the public’s imagination. Kind of. The true story behind the greatest autobiography you’ve never read.
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