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The Mysterious Howard Hughes Revealed

by Verl L. Frehner and Chuck Waldron

386 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2124; ISBN 1-4120-4317-4; US$30.00, C$34.00, EUR24.50, £17.00

A "revealing" new book on Howard Robert Hughes. It contains a collection of the most complete, in-depth, and extensive first-hand personal information available about him. It is biographical in nature, much of which comes from a confidential employee, Chuck Waldron, who shares in a very respectful and forthright manner some of the very human characteristics that Howard Hughes possessed.

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About the Book Verl Frehner's book, The Mysterious Howard Hughes Revealed, is a revealing new book, on a somewhat seasoned subject. It is an extensive and comprehensive work about the life of Howard Robert Hughes. It is biographical in nature and is thought to contain the most complete, in-depth, far-reaching, and extensive first-hand personal information available about him. As such, it promises to provide the reader with numerous additional insights into this man. Under normal circumstances this book about Howard Hughes would normally have been written years ago. Despite this, the mystery and intrigue attributed to him has only partially mellowed with the passing of time. The "wall of reclusiveness" that he created to isolate himself from the media produced a shortage of information about him that still "begs" to be satisfied. The content of this book accomplishes what most people want to know about him--what he thought, what he said, what he felt, what he did, and what he was about, in his everyday business and private-time activities. Much of the basic information in The Mysterious Howard Hughes Revealed comes from a confidential employee to Howard Hughes named Chuck Waldron, who shares, in a very respectful and forthright manner, some of the very human characteristics that Howard Hughes possessed. It is through this "confidential employee," and many other sources of information, that the reader is allowed to see the strengths, weaknesses, and even the oddities of Howard Hughes. By design, the thrust of this story begins on January 1, 1970, and tells of the last seven years, three months, and four days in his life, until his death on April 5, 1976 (Howard Hughes' most reclusive years). Against this frameword there is much more information included and inserted in the numerous "flashbacks" about his personal life found in records, recordings, stories, and historical events that parallel his entire life and adds significantly to the Howard Hughes story. Because of his reclusiveness it was difficult for people to really get to know him. As a result of this book, those who read it will come away with the feeling that they know Howard Hughes.

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About the Author Verl Frehner was raised in Mesquite, Nevada, served in the peacetime Army in Germany, and married Toni Lawrence of Cedar City, Utah. He obtained a Master's degree from Brigham Young University and an Ed.D. from Utah State University. He worked in the schools in Las Vegas, Nevada. After retiring, Frehner has returned to his hometown of Mesquite, Nevada.

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