Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer - Hardcover

Epstein, Edward Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448020 ISBN 13: 9780679448020

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

When Armand Hammer died at the age of 92, he was chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Company, lauded for his financial support of cancer research and for his art collection. But behind the facade of respectability lay a lifetime of fraud, both personal and professional. Now, the bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles reveals the true story of this manipulative and corrupt man. of photos.

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Review:

It comes as little surprise that Armand Hammer, the chairman and tyrant of Occidental Petroleum who molded himself into a modern Medici, was a philanderer, a sycophant to American Presidents and Soviet leaders alike, and an avid art collector who cared not a fig for art. The surprises in this absorbing biography by Edward Jay Epstein, with Armand Hammer, come from long-buried sources: that Hammer financed Soviet espionage in the United States, that he forced his long-time mistress to change her appearance and her identity to throw his wife off the track, and that Hammer was neither an astute businessman nor anything near the billionaire he portrayed himself as. Hammer's secret history, and his repellent yet fascinating character, deserve the exhaustive, acerbic treatment Epstein provides.

About the Author:

Edward Jay Epstein taught political science at Harvard, MIT, and UCLA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679448020
• ISBN 13: 9780679448020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418