Season 3 · Episode 13
"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
August 26, 202235m 44s
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Show Notes
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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