The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and Low

When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he d…

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