Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Official Bartender's Guide

With the 1933 repeal of Prohibition, America was thrust into a cocktail fever. After 13 years of bootleg gin and unscrupulous speakeasies cheating their customers, people were ready for better booze and creative cocktails they could make at home with friends. But the new generation of drinkers came of age during Prohibition, and they didn't know what to make, much less how make it.

The solution was a flood of cocktail books hitting the market in the mid-1930s. The most famous-and longest las...