TY - GEN T1 - The most dangerous German agent in America : the many lives of Louis N. Hammerling A1 - Biskupski, M. B. B. LA - English PP - De Kalb, Illinois PB - NIU Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn905916172 AB - "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"-- OP - 188 CN - DS134.72.H36 .B57 2015eb SN - 9781609091767 SN - 1609091760 SN - 9781501757822 SN - 1501757822 SN - 9780875807218 SN - 0875807216 KW - Hammerling, Louis N., : 1870-1935. KW - Hammerling, Louis N., : 1870-1935 KW - Jews, Polish : United States : Biography. KW - Juifs polonais : EĢtats-Unis : Biographies. KW - Jews, Polish KW - United States KW - Polish politics, German spies in USA, United Mine Workers. KW - Biographies KW - Biographies. ER -