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One of the most famous and enigmatic Us citizens of the 20th century, Howard Hughes challenged Hollywood's conventions and filled theaters along with his blockbuster motion pictures Hell's Angels, Scarface and The Outlaw. He thrilled the world along with his aviation exploits, shattering air swiftness records, flying surrounding the world in record time and building the world's largest plane. Hughes was linked with almost every major film beauty of the 1930s and '40s, making him a popular subject of the country's gossip columns. One of the world's first billionaires, Hughes altered his father's lot of money into a vast business empire. But also for all his famous achievements, Hughes' later years in Las Vegas - when medication addiction, bizarre patterns and a gambling house buying spree dominated his times - continue steadily to get the public's fascination. Geoff Schumacher, a veteran journalist and the author of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: AN IMPORTANT History of Modern Las Vegas, delves into the Las Vegas years of Howard Hughes in this engrossing portrait of a man whose impact on the city continues to be being thought today.
