Next to Hughes

Next to Hughes
ISBN-10
0061090336
ISBN-13
9780061090332
Category
Businessmen
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
1993-04
Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Robert Maheu

Description

Howard Hughes's right-hand man reveals how he helped the enigmatic billionaire break the mafia's stranglehold on Las Vegas and arrange the covert relationship between the CIA and mob that led to the Bay of Pigs invasion. Reprint.

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