"Not many people believe you can live in your dreams. I'm here to say you can." J. Jeremiah Jefferson III ; or J3 as you'll come to know him ; proves his point in, "I Know What I'm Talking About." This amazing life-and-times memoir takes you on a Caribbean odyssey spanning more than five decades and intersecting. With some of the region's most fascinating ; and notorious ; historical characters, including Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, Che Guevara, and assorted presidents of Mexico and the United States. (Turns out J3 was on pretty close terms with Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson!) In addition to, Thanks to a combination of chance and curiosity, anthropologist Fraser M. Livingston makes the discovery of a lifetime when he finds his way to the Caribbean island paradise of San Felipe. There he meets and interviews the legendary J3, who not only shares the story of his own mercurial career, but explains the mysterious history of San Felipe. Told in the inimitable first-person voice of J3, "I Know What I'm Talking About" recounts a lifetime of adventure, humor, danger, love, triumph and tragedy. J3 takes you to a face-to-face showdown with Baby Doc Duvalier, a tense negotiation with Castro and Che Guevara, a brutal confrontation in a Honduran banana field and a narrow escape from danger in a Guatemalan jail. Moreover, He also tells stories about his pals too, roguish Alfonso Sanchez (the purported "inventor" of guacamole dip!), wily Don Padrone, tough-as-nails Mike Castle and the avuncular Texan Charlie Grutwilder; and he shares the touching tale of his story-book romance and marriage to the wise and beautiful Rosalia Gatos. As J3 himself might put it, "When I say you'll enjoy this book, Live in your dreams, I know what I'm talking about."
