| Authors: |
Cohen, Rich.
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Jewish businesspeople -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Banana trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
United Fruit Company -- Biography.
Zemurray, Samuel,1877-1961.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2012. |
| Description: |
xiii, 270 p. : map, ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374299279 0374299277 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Summary: |
A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. |