The Fish That Ate the Whale Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Rich Cohen
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
360

The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Book Summary

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

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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Book Name The Fish That Ate the Whale
Genre History of the Americas
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.29 MB

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Amazed. This is the most interesting history I have read. As a former student from the Escuela Agricola Panamericana, I totally identify myself with Zemurray's working philosophy as it was part of Zamorano's daily tuition program. Excellent book.

Good yarn!. Great story on a fascinating character! Reads more like a novel at times and not always sure how much is true, but a entertaining and informative nonetheless.

Great Book. The story that Mr. Cohen tells of Sam The Banana Man is of a complicated and consequential life. It is fascinating how much influence Sam Zemurray had on the geopolitics of the 20th century. The way that Mr.Cohen is able to tie the events of Sam's life to the broader context of the last century is incredibly compelling. I strongly recommend this book.

The Fish that shape Latin Americaā€¦. Having been born in one of those ā€œbanana republicsā€ growing up under the umbrella of ā€˜Corporate Americaā€™, this story is remarkable of an era that shaped my own journey in life. I remember my family getting free bananas when a shipment went badā€¦ Many family members worked for U.F. a.k. Chiquita Banana brand. As a kid, I visited those relatives, saw their ā€œprivileged homes, parks, schools, swimming pools & life styles. My fatherā€™s earlier job upon marrying my mother was as a foreman on one of them plantationsā€¦ Life was good for many, horrible for the most! This book has brought many memories, illustrated many things I did not know of that life, growing up in banana country, the back yard farm of the might US of Aā€¦

Interesting read. Good one

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Summary of The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen

The The Fish That Ate the Whale book written by Rich Cohen was published on 05 June 2012, Tuesday in the History of the Americas category. A total of 360 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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