The hour

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One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard De Voto's The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink--properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner 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). De Voto instructs his readers on how to drink like gentlemen and sheds new light on the simple joys of the cocktail hour.

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Title Statements

Full title :The hour / by Bernard DeVoto ; with illustrations by William Barss.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Tin House Books
Place of Publication:Portland, Or
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

Notes

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1951.

The Physical Object

Description:127 pages : : illustrations ; : 19 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780982504802, 0982504802
oclc:ocn449282856
LC Classification:TX951
Dewey Decimal:641.8/74

Introduction -- The American spirits -- For the wayward and beguiled -- The enemy -- The hour.

Subjects

Boissons -- Fonctions sociales Cocktails Cocktails -- Humor Cocktails (Boissons) Cocktails (Boissons) -- Humour Drinking customs humor Humour Wit and Humor