03860cam a2200673 4500 1391420200 TxAuBib 20240710120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781429946292 1429946296 B0071VOLN8 Amazon b8228a63-4a1a-4daf-9612-c7d75d6fa074 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 870471 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cohen, Rich. The Fish That Ate the Whale [Libby] : The Life and Times of America's Banana King. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. business history. Corporate History. New Orleans History. Latin American History. corporate histories. agricultural trade. United Fruit Company. agricultural history. banana wars. American trade. History of Agriculture. History of Latin America. agriculture history. banana book. banana history. banana man. banana plantation. banana republics. banana trade. business histories. Cuyamel. fruit jobber. history of bananas. history of Honduras. history of new Orleans. Honduras history. jewish americans. jewish businessmen. jewish entrepreneurs. Samuel zemurray. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 875kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> and <i>The Times-Picayune</i><br /> The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary</b><br /> 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. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became 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.<br /> Zemurray 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 and precipitating the bloody thirty-six-year Guatemalan civil war, the Banana Man lived a monumental and sometimes dastardly life. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile <i>The Fish That Ate the Whale</i> unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-10 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B8228A63-4A1A-4DAF-9612-C7D75D6FA074&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B8228A63-4A1A-4DAF-9612-C7D75D6FA074&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B8228A63-4A1A-4DAF-9612-C7D75D6FA074&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)