Rich Cohen – The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King [AudioBook Unabridged 7 MP3s]
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Category: Autobiographies / Biographies

Whether you know him as El Amigo, the Banana Man, the Gringo, or simply Z – whether you even know him at all – Sam Zemurray lived one of the greatest untold American stories of the last hundred years.

A tough, uneducated Russian Jew who found himself and his fortune in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Zemurray built a fruit-selling empire hustling rotting fruit to market to eke out the slimmest profit, to eventually become a backchannel kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary. The Fish That Ate the Whale spans the transition from Old-World business to New-: from privateer adventurers seeking fortunes in remote frontiers, to buccaneers of high finance and wars fought with media, no-bid contracts, and necessary illusion.
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