{"product_id":"book-3480","title":"Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoward Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHughes had always been different. Raised by overprotective parents, pathologically fearful of germs, in awe of his father, unable to make friends, he grew into a man ruled by madness. Certainly his riches set him apart. But he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans World Airlines, a critically-important defense contractor, Hollywood’s most pursued, and elusive, bachelor, and partner of the United States government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an epic biography of an epic figure, who bestrode the world like a colossus, yet could not master himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49315899736368,"sku":"BD3480","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49315899769136,"sku":"ZE3480","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49315899801904,"sku":"ZM3480","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/3480-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775564069","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-3480","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}