American Decades
Hughes, Howard 19O5-1975
ADVENTURER, AVIATOR, CELEBRITY
Legend.
Howard Hughes led a remarkable and bizarre life. There is as much legend to his life as there is reality, which leads to his larger-than-life image. From Hughes's compulsive worries about germs to his links to Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, he has been idolized, trivialized, and despised all at one point or another. Obviously there is going to be much mystique surrounding a man who purportedly was seeing Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant while living with Katharine Hepburn and dating Bette Davis. In the 1930s, however, Hughes truly was an American hero and an innovator in the aviation field. In this decade Hughes's internal demons did not prevent him from achieving many remarkable feats.
Background.
Hughes was born in Humble, Texas, on 24 September 1905. His father was the outlaw oil wildcatter Howard Robard Hughes and his mother was a neurotic heiress, Allene Gano....
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1930's Business and the Economy
