Few American figures embodied brilliance, power, and outright strangeness as completely as Howard Hughes. By the time of his death in 1976, Hughes was one of the richest men in the world, a pioneer of aviation, a Hollywood mogul, and … Continue reading
Howard Hughes was a man whose ambition matched his fortune—and whose inner life was as complex as it was tragic. A record-setting aviator and aviation pioneer, Hughes was also a brilliant inventor, a powerful industrialist, a legendary Hollywood producer, a … Continue reading
Howard Hughes was a man whose ambition matched his fortune—and whose inner life was as complex as it was tragic. A record-setting aviator and aviation pioneer, Hughes was also a brilliant inventor, a powerful industrialist, a legendary Hollywood producer, a … Continue reading
Organized crime came in with a bang – literally – with the rise of prohibition. And no city was more under the control of the mob than Chicago. This exciting look at the rise of the Chicago outfit in the … Continue reading
Forget Al Capone. Capone ran the Chicago Outfit brutally and very publicly for just a couple of years before being sent to prison on income tax charges. Tony Accordo and Paul Rccca ran the Outfit until 1957 when they turned over … Continue reading