Contents
Preface: The Hughes–Las Vegas Connection
Part One: Before Las Vegas
1. Young Maverick: Becoming Hughes
Part Two: Las Vegas
2. Early Las Vegas: Hughes’ Safe Haven
3. Bob Maheu, Part 1: Rise of the Alter Ego
4. Outside Looking In: What Las Vegas Saw
5. The Penthouse: In the Hermit’s Kingdom
6. The Landmark: The Hard Luck Hotel
7. The Palace Coup: The Manipulation of Hughes
8. The Governors: Dealing with Hughes
9. Bob Maheu, Part 2: Aftermath of the Palace Coup
10. In His Own Words: The Hughes-Maheu Memos
11. Hughes and the Mob: Arm’s-Length Associations
12. Hank Greenspun: Media Friend, Media Foe
13. John Meier: Politics, Paranoia, and the Mining Scam
14. Channel 8: Hughes’ Movie Source
Part Three: After Death
15. Melvin Dummar: Good Samaritan or Teller of Tales?
16. The Estate: Will and the Wills
17. Legacies: Hughes in Hindsight
18. TWA: The Airline That Got Away
19. Hughes Aircraft: Hands-Off Success
20. The Glomar Explorer: Partnering with the CIA
21. RKO Pictures: How to Wreck a Movie Studio
Part Five: People
22. Uncle Rupert: The Renaissance Man
23. Jack Real: Hughes’ Last Friend
24. Paul Winn: Secretary to Hughes
25. Clifford Irving: The Hoax and the Interview
26. Jane Russell: ‘Two Good Reasons to See The Outlaw’
27. Terry Moore: Hughes’ Secret Wife?
28. Close Encounters: Memories of Howard Hughes
Part Six: Hughes in Pop Culture
29. The Fictional Hughes: Movies, Novels, and Beyond
30. Weird Tales: Obscure Books about Hughes
31. Hughes on Display: He’s Everywhere and Nowhere in Las Vegas
32. Pilgrimage: Visiting the Flying Boat
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author