Thursday, June 14, 7 p.m.
Sixth & I Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
Rich Cohen
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King is a true, historical profile of the banana king, Samuel Zemurray, a little known antihero and the son of a Jewish Russian farmer. The capitalist revolutionary driven by an indomitable will to succeed lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. You don’t know about him for the same reason people didn’t know about Don Corleone . . . because he did not want you to.
Cohen is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of Israel Is Real, Tough Jews, and Sweet and Low.
Click here to purchase tickets ($10) or to receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book through Sixth & I ($27). If you have questions, call 202.408.3100.
