Where Is the Great Journalism Cocktail?

And I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

The bartender and reporter assume their natural positions in “While the City Sleeps” (1956).

What we know about pre-Prohibition bartenders, bars and drinks in the United States can generally be ascribed to two kinds of sources. One is the cocktail and bartending manuals written by the bartenders themselves, including volumes by Jerry Thomas, Harry Johnso…