A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup

The remarkable story of the ambitious and innovative man who made his name synonymous with tea. 

 

Raised in desperate poverty, Sir Thomas Lipton built a global empire of markets, factories and stockyards with a prodigious talent for business and a shameless flare for self-promotion. He created the first chain of grocery stores before setting his sights on the tea trade, but in his day he was equally famous for another exploit: his pursuit of the international sailing trophy, the America's Cup. Now, a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist chronicles this larger-than life character.