Named a Best Book of the Year by the "San Francisco Chronicle"
and "The Times-Picayune"
The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made
banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to
kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary
The fascinating, untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made
banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to
kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary 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.
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
"The Fish That Ate the Whale" unveils Zemurray as a hidden power
broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed.
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