173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails: Potations So Good They Scandalized a President

173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails: Potations So Good They Scandalized a President by Bullock, Tom. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780965433327.

173 Cocktail Recipes from before Americas Prohibition Era including numerous absinthe, champagne cocktail, julep, pousse, cobbler, and punch recipes. Book includes a resource page for ordering ingredients, 20 fun facts and stories about drink in history (George Washingtons favorite drink, why Ben Franklin "flipped," how Winston Churchills mother inspired a New York bartender to create the Manhattan, a 1913 scandal of the "I didnt inhale" variety involving Teddy Roosevelt, and over 40 turn-of-the-20th-Century beverage-related advertisements, illustrations, railroad beverage menus, and quotes. Introduction by George Herbert Walker (grandfather of former President George Herbert Walker and great-grandfather of current President George Walker Bush).