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How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World
UNKNOWN
February 2008
On Sale: January 21, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 1841958816
EAN: 9781841958811
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this gripping exploration of corporate manuevering and
subterfuge, Peter Chapman shows how the importer United
Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized power and
influence of today's multinational companies. Bananas! is a
sharp and lively account of the rise and fall of this
infamous company, arguably the most controversial global
corporation ever – from the jungles of Costa Rica to the
dramatic suicide of its CEO, who leapt from an office on the
forty-fourth floor of the Pan Am building in New York City.
From the marketing of the banana as the first fast food, to
the company’s involvement in an invasion of Honduras, the
Bay of Pigs crisis, and a bloody coup in Guatemala, Chapman
weaves a dramatic tale of big business, political deceit,
and outright violence to show how one company wreaked havoc
in the “banana republics” of Central America, and how
terrifyingly similar the age of United Fruit is to our age
of rapid globalization.
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