Selling the Rope…and More

Since the early 1920's the most persistentnand obtrusive example of an Americanntout for Bolshevik business has beennArmand Hammer ("indubitably thenKremlin's favorite capitalist"). Finderndevastatingly recounts Hammer's careernof dissimulation which began when hisnfather's Communist coimections led to anbrief meeting with Lenin in 1921, andnwhich reached its twilight only . . .