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100 1 $aCohen, Rich.
245 14 $aThe fish that ate the whale :$bthe life and times of America's banana king /$cRich Cohen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2012.
300 $axiii, 270 p. :$bmap ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270).
505 0 $aGreen: -- 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.
520 $aA 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.
520 $aWhen 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
600 10 $aZemurray, Samuel,$d1877-1961.
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650 0 $aBanana trade$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory.
610 20 $aUnited Fruit Company$vBiography.
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