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“BERNARD DE VOTO called it the "supreme American gift to world culture," and H. L. Mencken said that it was "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.”
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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. "