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Hammer, Armand, 1898-1990.

Hammer / Armand Hammer, with Neil Lyndon.

New York : Putnam, ©1987.

544 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

The autobiography of an extraordinary man--statesman, envoy, industrialist, entrepreneur, physician, philanthropist, collector extraordinaire, citizen of the world--whose influence and knowledge have spanned decades and continents.

Hammer, Armand, 1898-1990.

Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.

Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.

Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.

Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union.

Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.

Autobiographies.

Lyndon, Neil.

Includes index.

Chernobyl Nicholas Daniloff and David Goldfarb -- My people -- My early life -- The student millionaire -- The decisive moment -- A Russian business romance -- A revolution in tatters -- Lenin -- Trotsky and the American capitalist -- Doing business under NEP -- Red czars commissars and the death of Lenin -- Big business and the soviet -- Moscow days and nights -- Home free -- An American emperor in Gimbels -- FDR -- The tough years -- A little company called occidental -- Mister K and Mister JFK -- Occidental in the big world -- Boardroom pirates and the perfidious shah -- The eighth sister -- Business with Brezhnev -- Of men and masterpieces -- Through the gates of the forbidden city -- Pushing toward the summit -- Andropov and Chernenko -- Opening the window -- Nearing a cure for cancer -- The old order changeth -- enter Gorbachev -- Shuttling -- Time out -- Star wars -- Palm Beach

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