The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King with Rich Cohen and Nicholas Lemann

Known as El Amigo, the Gringo, or simply Z, Samuel Zemurray started with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas and built a sprawling empire. Cohen weaves a historical profile of one of the great untold stories of the last 100 years.











When: Tue., Jun. 5, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Where: Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St.
212-982-8420
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Known as El Amigo, the Gringo, or simply Z, Samuel Zemurray started with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas and built a sprawling empire. Cohen weaves a historical profile of one of the great untold stories of the last 100 years.

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