Podcasts · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
· 36 min · S3 E13
Episode "You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
By the 1970s Howard Hughes was the "invisible billionaire”. A business tycoon, a daring aviator and Hollywood Lothario, Hughes had an amazing life story... but hiding away in luxury hotels he wasn't sharing his memories with anyone.
Then the recluse told a respected publishing house - via intermediaries - that he was working on an autobiography. The book would be a blockbuster... only it was all a lie.
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