The fish that ate the whale : the life and times of America's banana king
(2012)
By:
Cohen, Rich
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
338.7/COHEN,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
269 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374299279 (alk. paper), 0374299277 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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