Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail
, by Edmunds, Lowell- ISBN: 9780801873119 | 0801873118
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/2003
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."