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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cohen, Rich.     Subjects     Zemurray, Samuel, 1877-1961.     United Fruit Company -- Biography.     Jewish businesspeople -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.     Banana trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cohen, Rich.       by title:      The fish that ate th...         MARC Display

The fish that ate the whale : the life and times of America's banana king / Rich Cohen. by Cohen, Rich. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Subjects Zemurray, Samuel, 1877-1961.   United Fruit Company -- Biography.   Jewish businesspeople -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.   Banana trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. ISBN:  9780374299279 0374299277 Description:  xiii, 270 p. : map ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Green: -- Selma -- Ripes -- The fruit jobber -- Brown to green -- Bananas don't grow on trees -- The octopus -- New Orleans; -- Yellow: -- The isthmus -- To the Collins -- Revolutin' -- To the isthmus and back -- The bananas war; -- Ripe: -- King fish -- The fish that ate the whale -- Los Pericos -- Bananas go to war -- Israel is real -- Operation success -- Backlash; -- Brown: -- What remains -- Bay of Pigs -- The earth eats the fish that ate the whale -- Fastest way to the street; -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. 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, banana hauler, dockside hustler, and plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof 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. 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. -- Publisher description   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.76347 Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Biography B Zemurray Co BIOGRAPHY Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lanai P/S Library Adult Biography B Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Biography B Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.76347 Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.76347 Zemurray Co   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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