The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King

By Rich Cohen. Farrar, $27 (9780374299279).

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In this gripping biography—it’s as page-turningly exciting as any thriller—Samuel Zemurray, once the most powerful banana importer in America, comes off as a sort of real-world Charles Foster Kane.

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