- Jewish businesspeople, Banana trade, United Fruit Company, Biography
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.
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Classical in form, epic, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Rich Cohen
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374299279
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“Sam Zemurray spoke with no accent, except when he swore, which was all the time.”
Rich Cohen is an American non-fiction writer. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazines. He is co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, of the HBO series Vinyl. - Wikipedia
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