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This book is about coffee. Obvious, right? Yet, it is also about the larger world out there. Our kind author isn’t just using coffee as a metaphor, but instead uses Coffee as the proverbial “tip of the iceberg” as a way to talk about larger historical, political and social issues in a way that is palatable to the average reader. Coffee has had a major impact on the United States, from our very beginnings in the Boston Tea Party to our present day position in the land of 24 hour a day television, which of course really means 24 hours a day of advertising. How has this affected our place in the world? Americans drink a lot of coffee to get a quick pick me up. And that mood enhancing aspect is also included in similar products… those similar products include Cola, Tea, and all sorts of tricked out street drugs designed to make us feel better about who or what we are. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing really isn’t important to the discussion at this level, just that we are aware of it.Coffee has also affected our political dealing with the rest of the world, be it our weird love hate relationship with South and Central America as a source of coffee, and more currently various illegal drugs. If we weren’t buying it they wouldn’t be selling it to us. It has also entered into all kinds of health topics and considerations. Coffee has had a major social and political impact on the Untied States. We use it, and similar products and drugs for various reasons. We threaten political and military consequenences to those who have provided us those things. The “pick me up” aspect makes possible a longer workday for workers in modern society… and this can have productivity increases for companies and people. The advertising methods, those in many ways were invented to “push” coffee are everywhere in our social framework. And we haven’t gotten to coffee’s health affects. Is coffee good for you? A simple question that doctors is still trying to properly answer. It has some kind of health impact on our people, but what and how and why are still, in many ways, to be answered. There is a lot to be said, and my rambling review gives an idea of the many topics this most excellent book covers. But most importantly, the author tells one how to brew a good cup of coffee. If you are a fan of Jesse Livermore and could only read one book on his trading and life, this would be the book to read. Many people tout “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, but that book actually never details Livermore’s trading system. Also, many individuals erroneously claim that “Reminiscences” detailed how J.P. Morgan personally asked Livermore to stop shorting the market during the 1929 crash, when he allegedly walked away with 100 million dollars. Since “Reminiscences” was published in 1923, this would be a neat trick. Actually, Morgan asked Livermore to stop shorting the 1907 crash, to avoid a banking crisis.
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