Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk
H.L. Hunt, the former richest man in the world and a self-made oil tycoon, used his vast fortune to build right-wing media empires to push his extremist political views, becoming a prototype for modern billionaire propagandists like Elon Musk. His bizarre upbringing—nursing from his mother
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