The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
Devoto, Bernard / Handler, Daniel
One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour" is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink -- properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll -- warning: this book is not for rum drinkers. DeVoto instructs his readers on how to drink like gentlemen and sheds new ligh...