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The Fish That Ate the Whale


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I'm about halfway through this amazing biography of Samuel Zemurray, the Banana King. Has anyone here read it? It's a classic story of business success, aggressive management, the American dream, and development of our country as we know it today. It makes me long for better days for our people, who can all learn from him. Brief synopsis: Zemurray started from nothing, came up with the idea of selling bananas that others threw away but were still useful by moving them faster, was a millionaire by age 21 around 1900 just from that, then built up a company growing where nobody else was, then sold into a megacorp to retire, but then took that over and unretired for 20 more years. Oh, and beat J.P. Morgan when he tried to put him out of business--overthrowing a government to do it. And may or may not have removed Huey Long.

It's another one of those 250+ pg books you read in 3-4 days because it's just that good and you find yourself wanting to.

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