Fake! The Story of Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes Literary Hoax

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1970s, McGraw-Hill Book Company landed what could have been the literary scoop of the 20th century: A writer named Clifford Irving pitched them that he'd obtained the permission of the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes to write a tell-all memoir of the mogul. That manuscript, though, turned out to be one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century, and it landed Irving in prison.

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0:00.0	Does your inner monologue ever sound like,
0:03.0	ugh, I'm never going to be good enough,
0:05.0	or thin enough, or I'm too old to start something new?
0:09.0	I'm Jess Wiener, cultural expert,
0:11.0	and the host of Dominant Stories.
0:12.8	Those are all lies designed by culture and negative forces
0:17.1	to keep you small.
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