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In this enjoyable homage to the golden-age of the drink, illustrator Ed Hemingway and author Mark Bailey provide the very best (and thirstiest) National authors, a common drinks, accurate tales of the saucy escapades, and intoxicating excerpts from their fictional works. It’s an ideal mixture of literary heritage, traditional drink recipes, and stories of the great past of luxurious Martini dinners and tasty surplus. When Algonquin Round-Table tale Robert Benchley was asked if he understood that drinking was a gradual demise, Benchley got a drink of his drink and responded, “So who’s in a rush?” Hunter S. Thompson required grapefruit to be eaten by Muhammad Ali’s health tip every single day; liquor was just added by him for the blend.