King of the Gunrunners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War

by James W. Miller

By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A master of ships with a thunderous voice, Hart aggressively carried tropical fruit to an insatiable market with little concern for notions of supply and demand. But when an unexpected crisis hit the fruit business, Hart was unprepared. The financial Panic of 1893 doomed his strategy of bringing in limitless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496849906
• ISBN13: 9781496849908
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"