Download or read book Hammer written by Armand Hammer and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1988 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From presidents and prime ministers to shahs, sheiks, and monarchs, Armand Hammer has known all the great leaders of the world and led so distinguished a public life, few businessmen can compare to him. 32 pages of photos.
Download or read book Dossier written by Edward Jay Epstein and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the late entrepreneur's dealings with the Soviet Union and his role in the BCCI scandal
Download or read book The Remarkable Life of Dr Armand Hammer written by Bob Considine and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considine's writing style goes onto any subject like a piece of contact paper on furniture, and with about as profound an effect. His biography of the Occidental Petroleum (""Oxy"") sultan--a self-made millionaire who engineered grain deals with Lenin, sold the Hearst art collection to the great unwashed in Gimbels, collected the finest herd of Black Angus Aberdeens in America, and finally turned his attention to oil at the age of fifty-nine--prudently masks all individuality with a thin film of unconvincing hagiography. Dr. Hammer (no relation to the baking-soda company) got waylaid by other interests on the way to a medical career; he was starting pencil factories in the USSR and collecting icons long before America recognized the Red government (or the Soviets recognized the value of their art heritage). He cornered the market on barrel staves just in time for the end of Prohibition, made forays into the grain alcohol, potato alcohol, and both bonded and blended bourbon markets, and found time for public-spirited gestures like buying Campobello to donate it to the U.S. and Canadian governments. Much is made here of Hammer's multimillion-dollar art collection and of his hobnobbings with the great. Not the slightest mention is made of a 1974 disagreement with the IRS about alleged overvaluation of art works Hammer used as charitable donations for tax purposes, or those other nasty allegations about channeling illegal contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign through Governor Tim Babcock of Montana. The few legal squabbles Considine does mention are of course all due to the greed, malice, or underhandedness of others, and the disastrous slump in Oxy's stock since 1972 is blandly attributed to a tactless remark by the Secretary of Commerce pooh-poohing the huge fertilizer deal being negotiated between Oxy and the Russians. An instructive exercise in bowdlerization." --AbeBooks.com.
Download or read book The Dark Side of Power written by Carl Blumay and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his death in 1990, multimillionaire capitalist Armand Hammer was known as a philanthropist, a peacemaker, and a family man. Now close Hammer associate Carl Blumay reveals the powerful Hammer's dark side--his marriages, his self-serving deals, sly maneuvers for political favors, ruthless manipulation of business associates, and more. Here at last is the truth about the myth that the man himself created. Photographs.
Download or read book The Armand Hammer Collection written by John Walker and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armand Hammer written by Steve Weinberg and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1989 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unauthorized biography of the medical doctor who built the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, one of the largest oil companies in the world. It attempts to convey a factual account of Hammer's extraordinary business career from mostly secondary sources. Weinberg maintains that Hammer's own version of pivotal episodes in his life, as reported in either of two previous, authorized biographies, John Bryson's The World of Armand Hammer (Abrams, 1985) and Hammer's own Hammer , with Neil Lyndon (Putnam, 1987), is enhanced to shed favorable light on himself. While Weinberg presents evidence refuting some of Hammer's self-aggrandizing history, he cannot help but give Hammer his due as a master entrepreneur. Comprehensive, balanced, and well written, this is suitable for business collections.-- Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad . Lib, West Point, N.Y. -Library Journal.
Download or read book Surviving My Birthright written by Casey Hammer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revealing and inspirational memoir by Casey Hammer, sole granddaughter of the American billionaire, industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Armand Hammer. SURVIVING MY BIRTHRIGHT is a story of hope, love, and the reclamation of empowerment. Casey's is a journey of discovery - recounting many years of blocked memories, violence, nightmares, hazardous behavior, guilt and feeling unworthy of joy or happiness. By taking responsibility for her life, no longer being prepared to accept the role of victim and by facing the truth, Casey began to heal. Hopefully, her story will inspire many others to do the same.
Download or read book Dreams and Promises written by Theodore D. Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Armand Hammer United World College in Las Vegas, New Mexico
Download or read book The Quest of the Romanoff Treasure written by Armand Hammer and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Dreams written by Susan Ehrlich and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masters of American Comics written by John Carlin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
Download or read book The Soviet World of American Communism written by Harvey Klehr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political, and historical importance. Based on documents newly available from Russian archives, The Soviet World of American Communism conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. In a meticulous investigation of the personal, organizational, and financial links between the CPUSA and Soviet Communists, the authors find that Moscow maintained extensive control of the CPUSA, even of the American rank and file. The widely accepted view that the CPUSA was essentially an idealistic organization devoted to the pursuit of social justice must be radically revised, say the authors. Although individuals within the organization may not have been aware of Moscow’s influence, the leaders of the organization most definitely were. The authors explain and annotate ninety-five documents, reproduced here in their entirety or in large part, and they quote from hundreds of others to reveal the actual workings of the American Communist party. They show that: • the USSR covertly provided a large part of the CPUSA budget from the early 1920s to the end of the 1980s; • Moscow issued orders, which the CPUSA obeyed, on issues ranging from what political decisions the American party should make to who should serve in the party leadership; • the CPUSA endorsed Stalin’s purges and the persecution of Americans living in Russia.
Download or read book Arm Hammer Pure Baking Soda written by Christine Halvorson and published by PIL Kids. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using baking soda throughout the house to save time and money. » The quick and simple ideas in this book cover many areas: cleaning the house, maintaining health and beauty, caring for pets, doing laundry, and much more. » Arm & Hammer Baking Soda is in everyone's pantry . . . give these tricks a try. You'll be glad you did.
Download or read book Now Dig This written by Kellie Jones and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.
Download or read book The Man in the Red Coat written by Julian Barnes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**
Download or read book The Secret World of American Communism written by Harvey Klehr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden world of American communism can now be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. Interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Part of the the United States of America (CPUSA), providing proof that it was involved in espionage and other subversive activitives. 16 illustrations.
Download or read book Scene of the Crime written by Ralph Rugoff and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is not about works of art that simply document criminal acts. Rather, it is about a strain of art that presents the art object as a clue to absent meanings or actions.
