The Liberty Seekers An American Saga: A History of the Hughes Family and Fortune

The author, Howard R. Hughes III, an eleventh generation American and legitimate son of famed Howard R. Hughes Junior, who knew his father, reveals a history of American liberty through the lives of one of its three oldest families whose genealogy structures this singular work. The family is representative of liberty for the generations practiced its ancient precept, self-employment, as planters and entrepreneurs. Likewise, various generations followed the frontier, from Virginia to Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, and California. There, at its end, the tenth generation strove to maintain liberty against resurgent political imperialism and its private sector counterpart, monopoly. Notwithstanding that stand for independence, the eleventh generation thinks liberty is facing its greatest hour heretofore. To admonish Americans, he offers the herein historical account of the culture's greatest attribute so that his countrymen shall become better acquainted with liberty, learn how to better live it, and thus strengthen it for posterity.