num_pages: 192
description: 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 Lowell Edmunds traces the history and cultural significance of the cocktail H. L. Mencken called "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."
language: English
title: Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
titlecomplete: Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
genres: Booze
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press