Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz teases possible presidential run with nationwide book tour

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published 2 October 2018

Howard Schultz really looks like he's brewing up a presidential run.

The former Starbucks CEO has long been eyed as a potential Democratic candidate for 2020, and rumors only intensified when he stepped down from the company in June. Now, he's launching a nationwide book tour focused on everything but coffee, and Axios suggests it could be Schultz's first sip of political tea.

Schultz has previously authored and toured with his Starbucks-centric book Onward, published in 2011. But his forthcoming book, From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America "isn't the coffee story," as Axios puts it. It'll start with Schultz's description of growing up in a Brooklyn housing project, and then discuss how he led Starbucks while "providing health care and stock ownership to part-time workers" and "speaking out about controversial topics like race and refugees," per Schultz's website.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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