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

It’s up to us to see it never happens again was the sentiment of the moment. For many, the only solution was the creation of a Jewish state. Not only would it protect the living, providing shelter and a place of refuge, it would redeem the millions who had died.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
If you want to understand the spirit of our nation, the good and bad, you can enroll in college, sign up for classes, take notes and pay tuition, or you can study the life of Sam the Banana Man.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Sandy soil known as loam, high humidity, high temperatures, and at least 180 inches of rain a year.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
If he had a regret, it might have been that he did not raise his children as Jews. Here was a man who lived every aspect of the Jewish experience in America. He came with the great influx from Eastern Europe, prospered with his times, was devastated by the war. He married a Jewish woman, belonged to a synagogue, said Kaddish for his dead. He was a
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If you want to advance a private interest, turn it into a public cause.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
We have learned that what’s best for the countries we operate in is best for the company.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
a man who lived as if the wild places of the hemisphere were his for the taking.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Tolstoy described a child as a sphere of vulnerability, another place the world can hurt you.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
If you buy a man, you have a right to expect him to stay bought.