Armand Hammer Hit Mercilessly in New Bio

Chicago Sun-Times | November 11, 1992| | Copyright

The Dark Side of Power The Real Armand Hammer. By Carl Blumay with Henry Edwards. Simon & Schuster. $25.

Armand Hammer, late chairman of Occidental Petroleum, entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist, was not a nice guy.

He sold desperately needed medical supplies to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and walked away with czarist art objects he later sold for millions.

He promised to donate his art collection to the University of Southern California, but when the school refused to name a wing after him, he reneged and started building his own museum with Occidental's ...

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