Peter Harry Brown

I've been obsessed with Howard Hughes since I was little - yeah, I was a weird kid. I just couldn't imagine anyone living the way he did in later years. This is a big book, and goes into depth about Hughes personal & professional lives. Most of the time, you got enough detail, and the book moved along well, but a few times I would have liked to have known more (though the lack may have been due to the fact that so little is known about some details of Hughes life). It's such a sad story about an interesting character - I can't help but wish he was alive now, when medical knowledge could have helped him & improved his life dramatically & who knows what else he could have accomplished.… (más)

Barham & Brown did a superb job of producing a book on the iconic Marilyn Monroe that borders on scholarly work. They uncovered thousands of pages of documents, photographs, declassified FBI documents (under the FIA), interviews, film footage and wiretap-tapes made at the order of the late J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director under President Kennedy. A serious fan will find much evidence to support the theory that Ms. Monroe was murdered in an effort to "hush her up." It seems she had been privy to too much high-level information. Although they've laid out a solid case for the real events of the night of her death, some of the secrets of what really happened to Marilyn went with her to the grave.… (más)