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The Fish That Ate the Whale
Author: Rich Cohen Edition: First Edition Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0374299277 Price: You Save: 78%
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and Low
When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless.The Fish That Ate the Whale review. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. In Latin America, when people shouted “Yankee, go home!” it was men like Zemurray they had in mindRead full reviews of The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times Of America's Banana King By.
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A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of 'Israel is Real' and 'Sweet and Low 'When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic e
Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format MP3 CD Condition Brand New Author Biography Rich Cohen is the author of Tough Jews, The Avenger s, and Machers and Rockers, and the memoir Lake Effect, His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among many other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, He lives in New York City. Details
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When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, a banana hauler, a dockside hustler, and a plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. In Latin America, when people shouted “Yankee, go home!” it was men like Zemurray they had in mind.
Rich Cohen’s brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary, driven by an indomitable will to succeed. Known as El Amigo, the Gringo, or simply Z, the Banana Man lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. From hustling on the docks of New Orleans to overthrowing Central American governments, from feuding with Huey Long to working with the Dulles brothers, Zemurray emerges as an unforgettable figure, connected to the birth of modern American diplomacy, public relations, business, and war—a monumental life that reads like a parable of the American dream.
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