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SECONDHAND BOOK
Hugh D. McIntosh was one of Australia’s first high flyers. Starting humbly as a pie-delivery boy, ‘Huge Deal’ amassed wealth and power that would astonish most millionaires of today. He burst onto the scene in the early twentieth century when, in a blaze of international media attention, he built the Sydney Stadium and staged the racially charged world-heavyweight championship fight between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson. He went on to buy influential newspapers and the colourful Tivoli Theatre circuit, and wormed his way into the New South Wales parliament. He travelled the world hobnobbing with the likes of Nellie Melba, H.G. Wells, William Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, Florenz Ziegfield, Les Darcy and W.C. Fields. His fleet of Pierce-Arrow limousines and his mansion in Britain were props in the glamorous fantasy that had become his life. A ring from Tutankhamen’s tomb to seduce Rudolph Valentino’s wife… a bizarre seance to channel a hanged murderer… a series of scandalous affairs with beautiful women… and yet this rich, fascinating and largely forgotten life ended in poverty, with friends passing the hat around to pay for his funeral.
A racy raconteur, an audacious entrepreneur – possibly Australia’s first – ‘Huge Deal’ was a champion of aviation and rugby league, of Returned Servicemen’s causes, of glamour, power, philanthropy and mayhem.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – paged yellowed, general wear and ageing to cover, signed by author.
Publisher: Lothian Books
Year: 2004
Format: Paperback
Pages: 308pp
ISBN: 9780734406804
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