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The True Tale of a Vaudevillian Who Fooled Hitler
June 28, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, author of Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer. Vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler, card shark and self-proclaimed “Jade King of China,” Freeman Bernstein was a master of exuberant excess and no stranger to the hard-hand of the law. But the charges he was arrested for in 1937 were more serious than those he had ever encountered before; Adolf Hitler claimed that Bernstein had committed fraud against the German government.
A thrilling and page-turning read, Hustling Hitler is the untold story of the larger-than-life, eternal hustler who changed the course of history.
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