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Starbucked

A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

By Taylor Clark

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| Hardcover | 9780316013482

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STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success.Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the cContinue

STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success.Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In STARBUCKED, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress activists and coffee zealots alike.Through a cast of characters that includes coffee-wild hippies, business sharks, slackers, Hollywood trendsetters and more, STARBUCKED explores how America transformed into a nation of coffee gourmets in only a few years, how Starbucks manipulates psyches and social habits to snare loyal customers, and why many of the things we think we know about the coffee commodity chain are false.

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  • Starbucked, by Taylor Clark, and The Devil’s Cup, by Stuart Lee Allen

    Home Contact us Posts Comments This review by James Appleby first appeared on Tastybooks.co.uk. This is not about coffee. Nor is it about its tastes, its modern gourmet guise or its effects on us. It is about big business, and how one name came to do ... (read full critics)

    bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Venti Capitalists

    There’s a great story to be told about the success of Starbucks. But we’ll have to wait to hear it from somebody other than Taylor Clark. This is a shame because Clark is an enthusiastic young writer who has the seat of his intellectual pants hooked ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • A book that uses Starbucks as a platform to talk about the history of coffee, and its powerful rise in the modern world. I was never once bored throughout this book, and Taylor Clark does use amusing language to convey his point. I have actually learnt a few facts from such a light-hearted book.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 031601348X
  • ISBN-13: 9780316013482
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • Pub date: Nov 05, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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