2.75 stars.This is the story of very interesting character in American history, Sam Zemurray, a Jewish Russian immigrant who came to the US penniless and died one of the richest and most powerful men of the time, the rise of the banana empire and related politics between the US and Central Americ...
He would find it in the nascent state of Israel. Here’s how it started: In 1922, Zemurray was contacted by Chaim Weizmann, who would become the founding president of the Jewish nation. Weizmann had been traveling the United States when he heard his first Banana Man story. “I made an unusual ‘find...