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02162aam a2200409 4500 001 DF97D1DE3CF911E68185848DDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160628013051 008 160304s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 020 $a 0399161473 020 $a 9780399161476 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Shapiro, Walter. 245 10 $a Hustling Hitler : $b the Jewish vaudevillian who fooled the F©ơhrer / $c by Walter Shapiro. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Blue Rider Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 432 p. 520 $a All his life, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish stories about his great-uncle Freeman were exaggerated family lore; some cockamamie Jewish revenge fantasies dreamt up to entertain the kids and venerate their larger-than-life relative. Only when he started researching Freeman BernsteinÌs life did he realize that his family was actually holding backÌthe man had enough stories, vocations, and IOUs to fill a dozen lifetimes. Freeman was many people: a vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler, card shark and self-proclaimed ÌJade King of China.Ì But his greatest title, perhaps the only man who can claim such infamy, was as The Man Who Hustled Hitler. 541 $d 20160617. 600 10 $a Shapiro, Walter $x Family. 600 10 $a Bernstein, Freeman, $d 1873-1942. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Germany. 650 1 $a Jews $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 7 $a Swindlers and swindling $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Businessmen $z Shanghai $z Shanghai $v Biography. 650 0 $a Nickel $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Entertainers $z Bayonne $z Bayonne $v Biography. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 7 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240104012004.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111013405.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204083356.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110065259.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211023953.0 952 $l MWPB943 $d 20180712042253.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20161216011925.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF97D1DE3CF911E68185848DDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search