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This is a biography of Edmundo Lassalle, a Mexican who came to the U.S. in 1935 to attend Columbia University, married the daughter of a college dean, became a student/teacher at the University of California earning a Phi Beta Kappa key. He became a U.S. citizen and an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller, then a member of the Roosevelt Administration before becoming an American espionage agent in Spain while employed as the European Representative of the Walt Disney Company. At the end of the war, he divorced his first wife in order to marry a German princess whose father was an early supporter of Adolf Hitler. Later, he divorced the princess to marry the first of two wealthy American heiresses. Financially secure, he took up residence on the upper east side of Manhattan to devote his time and talents to the preservation of ancient monuments. In 1974, divorced from his fourth wife and failing in health, he took his own life in London.

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