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The fish that ate the whale : the life and times of America's banana king / Rich Cohen.
Lippincott Library HD9259.B2 Z463 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Rich.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zemurray, Samuel, 1877-1961.
- Zemurray, Samuel.
- United Fruit Company.
- Jewish businesspeople--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Banana trade--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Banana trade.
- United Fruit Company--Biography.
- History.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 270 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374299279
- 0374299277
- OCLC:
- 757177308
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