Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer.

Insight on the News | November 18, 1996| | Copyright

Armand Hammer was one of the odder, more odious characters of American business and politics, famous chiefly because he was rich enough to promote his mammoth ego. He has met his match in Edward Jay Epstein, investigative writer and author of Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer (Random House, 399 pp), a provocative biography that umnasks the man who deceived, even betrayed, his country and his family

The public persona that Hammer polished, at great expense, was that of a renegade oilman who made billions from Libyan oil, chummed around with powerful ...

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