The World of Armand Hammer

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The World of Armand Hammer Text and Photographs by John Bryson With an íntroduction by Walter Cronkite Here is Armartd Hammer-business leader, philanthropist, statesman, physician, envoy to the Soviet Union and China, art collector, cattle breeder-captured in his ceaseless travels throughout the capitals of the world. This is photojournalism at its best. From the Kremlin to 10 Downing Street, from the White House to the Sultan's Palace in Omán, from oil rigs in the North Sea to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, photojournalist John Bryson follows Doctor Hammer as the 87-year-old tycoon directs Occidental Petroleum, brings world leaders together in pursuit of peace, exhibits his famous art collection, struggles to find a cure for cancer, and confers with many of the most influential men and women on earth. With 250 color photographs and a fascinating text, Bryson takes us behind closed doors on the corridors of power all over the world. We are there as Hammer meets with... Tovább

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The World of Armand Hammer Text and Photographs by John Bryson With an íntroduction by Walter Cronkite Here is Armartd Hammer-business leader, philanthropist, statesman, physician, envoy to the Soviet Union and China, art collector, cattle breeder-captured in his ceaseless travels throughout the capitals of the world. This is photojournalism at its best. From the Kremlin to 10 Downing Street, from the White House to the Sultan's Palace in Omán, from oil rigs in the North Sea to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, photojournalist John Bryson follows Doctor Hammer as the 87-year-old tycoon directs Occidental Petroleum, brings world leaders together in pursuit of peace, exhibits his famous art collection, struggles to find a cure for cancer, and confers with many of the most influential men and women on earth. With 250 color photographs and a fascinating text, Bryson takes us behind closed doors on the corridors of power all over the world. We are there as Hammer meets with President Reagan, parties with Jacqueline Onassis, confers with Deng Xiaoping, and dines with his good friends Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Bryson captures Hammer during quiet moments aboard Oxy One, the priváté 727 on which the Doctor logs more than 250,000 miles a year as he jets around the world. And Bryson is with the Doctor when he signs a historic coal deal in China, bids on a million-dollar horse, and takes his Leonardo da Vinci codex to Italy. As Walter Cronkite writes in his Íntroduction, the world of Armand Hammer is "truly incredible." On these pages, John Bryson has captured Hammer's incredible world as it has never been seen before. Vissza