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Mystery man : William Rhodes Davis, Nazi agent of influence / Dale Harrington.
LIBRA D810.S8 D294 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, Dale.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, William Rhodes, 1889-1941.
- Davis, William Rhodes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--United States--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Germany--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Dulles, Va. : Brassey's, 1999.
- Summary:
- William Rhodes Davis was Adolf Hitler's main agent of influence in the United States. Among Davis's many nefarious deeds was his acquisition of much of the oil Hitler needed to start World War II and the delivery of five million dollars to the Republican Party for the presidential election campaign of 1940. Davis was a superb manipulator who could beguile the Nazis while simultaneously receiving the assistance of labor leader John L. Lewis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thought to be the model for the American Nazi in the motion picture Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Davis was an enigmatic, larger-than-life villain whose story is told here for the first time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1574881817
- OCLC:
- 41338094
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