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Media Type: | Audiobook |
Genre(s): | Biographies & Memoirs American Literature |
Narrator(s): | Robertson Dean |
ISBN: | 9781666591514 |
Publish Date: | 07/31/2012 |
Run Time: | 9 Hours, 1 Minute |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Dreamscape Media |
Audiobook
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. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, banana hauler, dockside hustler, and plantation owner. He battled and conquered the United Fruit Company, becoming a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen.