by Rich Cohen
Map copyright © 2012 by Jeffrey L. Ward
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First edition, 2012
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Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, copyright © 1967 by Gabriel García Márquez, translation copyright © 1970 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells and HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla) by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman, translation copyright © 2003 by Gabriel García Márquez. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long, copyright © 1933 by Huey P. Long, renewal copyright © 1961 by Russell B. Long. Unabridged reprint edition published 1996 by Da Capo Press, by arrangement with Russell B. Long, Palmer Long, and Christopher R. Brauchli. Reprinted by permission of Palmer R. Long, Jr., trustee, and R. Katherine Long, granddaughter of Huey P. Long.
The poem “United Fruit Company” from Canto General by Pablo Neruda, translated by Jack Schmitt, copyright © 1991 by the Fundación Pablo Neruda. Published by the University of California Press. Reprinted by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cohen, Rich.
The fish that ate the whale : the life and times of America’s banana king / Rich Cohen. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-374-29927-9 (alk. paper)
1. Zemurray, Samuel, 1877–1961. 2. Jewish businesspeople—Louisiana—New Orleans—Biography. 3. Banana trade—Louisiana—New Orleans—History. 4. United Fruit Company—Biography. I. Title.
HD9259.B2 Z463 2012
338.7'634772092—dc23
[B]
2011041207
eISBN 9781429946292
www.fsgbooks.com
Frontispiece: Photograph of Samuel Zemurray reprinted by permission of Eliot Elisofon / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images.