Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail, Paperback / softback Book

Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail Paperback / softback

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Originally published in 1998. From its contested origins in nineteenth-century California; through its popularity among the smart set of the 1930s, world leaders of the 1940s, and the men in the gray flannel suits of the 1950s; to its resurgence among today's retro-hipsters: Lowell Edmunds traces the history and cultural significance of the cocktail H.

L. Mencken called "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."

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