LEADER 03479nam 2200625 450 001 9910460540203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-5782-2 010 $a1-60909-176-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501757822 035 $a(CKB)3710000000358010 035 $a(EBL)3382610 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001437286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12611813 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001437286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11445515 035 $a(PQKB)10087811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382610 035 $a(OCoLC)903985822 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42818 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11022333 035 $a(DE-B1597)572358 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501757822 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000358010 100 $a20150306h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe most dangerous German agent in America $ethe many lives of Louis N. Hammerling /$fM. B. B. Biskupski ; design by Yuni Dorr 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aDe Kalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87580-721-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a"On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in turn-of-the-century America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the country seeking a better life. He was also a pathological liar, a crook, a swindler, a ruthless entrepreneur, and a patriot--of which nation he could never decide. In the United States, Hammerling rose from the poverty of his youth to the heights of wealth and power. He was a timberman and mule driver in the Pennsylvania coal mines, an indentured worker in the Hawaiian sugar fields, one of the major behind-the-scenes powers in the United Mine Workers, an employee of the Hearst newspaper chain, an influential figure in the Republican Party, the owner of an advertising agency that made him a millionaire, a correspondent of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and a senator of the Polish Republic. A Jew whose conversion to Catholicism did not protect him from anti-Semitism, Hammerling was monitored by state and federal agencies and was, in the words of his pursuers, "the most dangerous German agent in America"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJews, Polish$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aPolish politics, German spies in USA, United Mine Workers. 615 0$aJews, Polish 676 $a627.1243073092 700 $aBiskupski$b Mieczys?aw B.$01046858 702 $aDorr$b Yuni 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460540203321 996 $aThe most dangerous German agent in America$92474090 997 $aUNINA