The Fish That ate the Whale : : the Life and Times of America's Banana King
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xiii, 270 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780374299279
0374299277
SUBJECTS
Zemurray, Samuel, -- 1877-1961.
United Fruit Company -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Banana trade -- New Orleans -- History.