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The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic Condition:Well Read demonstrating the range and complexityA chilled, crystal glass; the purest gin; a touch of dry vermouth vigorously shaken, not stirred and a plump, green olive. The Martini was and still is more than just a cocktail. Originally mixed in the nineteenth century, it became an American icon in the twentieth, and the favorite drink of such luminaries as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Jack London, and Ernest Hemingway. Bernard De Voto called the Martini "the supreme American gift to