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The most dangerous German agent in America : the many lives of Louis N. Hammerling / M. B. B. Biskupski ; design by Yuni Dorr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biskupski, M. B. B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hammerling, Louis N., 1870-1935.
- Hammerling, Louis N.
- Jews, Polish--United States--Biography.
- Jews, Polish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- De Kalb, Illinois : NIU Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in turn-of-the-century America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the country seeking a better life. He was also a pathological liar, a crook, a swindler, a ruthless entrepreneur, and a patriot--of which nation he could never decide. In the United States, Hammerling rose from the poverty of his youth to the heights of wealth and power. He was a timberman and mule driver in the Pennsylvania coal mines, an indentured worker in the Hawaiian sugar fields, one of the major behind-the-scenes powers in the United Mine Workers, an employee of the Hearst newspaper chain, an influential figure in the Republican Party, the owner of an advertising agency that made him a millionaire, a correspondent of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and a senator of the Polish Republic. A Jew whose conversion to Catholicism did not protect him from anti-Semitism, Hammerling was monitored by state and federal agencies and was, in the words of his pursuers, "the most dangerous German agent in America"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. Wanderings: from Galicia to Honolulu and back
- 2. Business, politics, and coal
- 3. Business tycoon and Republican leader
- 4. National politics
- 5. One of the most dangerous German agents in America
- 6. Dreams and ruin
- 7. The senator from Honolulu
- 8. The last chapter: America again.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501757822
- 1501757822
- 9781609091767
- 1609091760
- OCLC:
- 903985822
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