Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture Series)
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In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape. The event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801848873
ISBN13:9780801848872
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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