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

When he arrived in America in eighteen ninety one, at age fourteen. Zamuri 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.

A banana hauler. A dockside hustler. And the owner of plantations on the central American Isthmus. He battled and conquered United Fruit. Which is one of the first truly global corporations.

Samuri's life is a parable of the American dream. Not history as recorded in textbooks. Cast strength version. A subterranean saga of kickbacks, overthrows, and secret deals.

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