Totally Bananas

About the Book

Totally Bananas: The Funny Fruit in American History and Culture is an eclectic work that is serious when it needs to be and humorous when it can be. An amazing, diverse collection of people is found in the stories of lives linked with bananas in business, entertainment, politics, science, health, sports, and music. Readers will find humor in the stories of puzzled immigrants confronting the mysterious yellow fruit for the first time and flamboyant soldiers of fortune matching wits with the government. Banana men buying Washington influence and using the CIA is serious business as is information on the nutritional and medical uses of the banana. An appealing book for banana lovers, which is almost everyone.

About the Author

The eclectic nature of Totally Bananas is representative of the author’s varied professional background and his diverse interests and life experiences. In a thirty-five year high school teaching career in New Jersey he taught United States and world history, geography, economics, politics, international relations and gifted and talented education. Holding degrees in social studies from Rutgers University and American History from Brown University, he has also studied such subjects as the history of science and international economics at Rutgers and Cambridge Universities. The author has coached basketball, done archeological studies in the American southwest and participated in a biological study of “honey ants” in Australia.