America 1930-1939: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 106 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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America 1930-1939: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 106 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
This section contains 119 words
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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.

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