To the list of books suitable for a course in the social history of alcohol, I am brazen enough to add my MARTINI, STRAIGHT UP : THE CLASSIC AMERICAN COCKTAIL, just out from Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (ISBN 0-8018-5971-9). It is hardbound but, from amazon.com, will not cost more than some of the paperbacks on the lists that have been circulating. It is by the way a thoroughly revised and updated second edition of THE SILVER BULLET : THE MARTINI IN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (1981). Lowell Edmunds