Hughes's myth making works to perfection for years. But after the war, the machinery starts to falter. The world begins to see little glimpses of a very different howard hughes. And so he retreats, almost in embarrassment and shame. A minor novelist from abeza named clifford irving decides to write a fake autobiography of howard hugheses. He is trying to create a new version of howard Hughes out of whole cloth.
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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