the fish that ate the whale by rich cohen

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It is a twentieth-century epic, and standing at its core is a man unlike any we've seen before or since, who, for good or ill, looked at what was, but saw only what was possible. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of Americas Banana King by Rich Cohen review A colourful account of the rise to wealth and power of Sam Zemurray, Americas great fruit. Rich Cohens brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed. Z's story spans the birth of modern foreign relations, the creation of the CIA, smuggling dispossessed Jews out of Europe, the invention of Israel, corporate espionage, the Bay of Pigs, political assassination, and the unspoken motives of the Cold War. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King Paperback Jby Rich Cohen (Author) 1,754 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

9.95 for new members Add to Cart learn more. Part of what makes this book so remarkable - and its dubious hero so compelling - is the almost invisible ease with which Cohen's threads intertwine to create a larger pattern that seems so obvious once you step back to see it. The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King Audiobook. 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 illusions. 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.Ī 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. 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.

The fish that ate the whale by rich cohen