--- product_id: 20828579 title: "The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century" price: "€ 41.25" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/20828579-the-modern-drunkard-a-handbook-for-drinking-in-the-21st store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Vintage-inspired illustrations Comprehensive drinking manual Top-rated humor & self-help blend The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century **Price:** € 41.25 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🍸 Sip smart, laugh loud, live fully — the ultimate handbook for the modern connoisseur. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century - **How much does it cost?** € 41.25 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/20828579-the-modern-drunkard-a-handbook-for-drinking-in-the-21st) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Empower Your Social Rituals:** Practical advice on parties, interventions, and navigating sobriety culture with style. - • **Vintage Vibes, Modern Wisdom:** Features timeless Art Deco and mid-century commercial art to delight your inner aesthete. - • **Laugh & Learn with Every Page:** Sharp, witty prose that elevates your drinking IQ and humor simultaneously. - • **Master the Art of Modern Tippling:** A no-holds-barred guide to drinking culture in the 21st century. - • **Join the Cult of the Modern Drunkard:** A cult classic with a 4.6-star rating, perfect for the discerning millennial drinker. ## Overview The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century is a critically acclaimed, humor-infused manual that revives the lost art of drinking with practical advice, historical anecdotes, and vintage-inspired illustrations. Perfect for millennials seeking to blend social sophistication with unapologetic enjoyment, this book offers a fresh take on alcohol culture, boasting a 4.6-star rating and a cult following. ## Description Attempting to deconstruct America's joyless obsession with sobriety, The Modern Drunkard offers today's befuddled drinkers a comprehensive and instructive manual on the delights of alcohol culture, how to be a good drunk, how to drink, and how to do it well. Through articles, anecdotes, cartoons, and illustrations pulled from our long and happy history of drinking alcohol, Frank Kelly Rich campaigns to revive the lost art of tippling and taps a deep vein of boozy lore and legend through the ages, uncovering etiquette and expertise from some of history's greatest guzzlers. Review: Guide to Empowerment Disguised as Booze Manual - This masterpiece has an important subtext: Your time is your own. In an era filled with workaholic boss-kissers toiling 24/7 so some corporation's stock can increase a quarter of a point, it's important for us all to remember that the point of hard work, achievement, fame, and fortune, is the enjoyment of life. Rich's message is the same as the recommendations of the most popular self-help gurus of our era-- be present in the current moment, behave in ways that are consistent with your true values, and all else will fall into place. If alcohol helps you reach these goals, then pursue it with unabashed abandon. Don't harm others and keep the harm to yourself to a minimum, and your joy will increase. The humor improves at blood alcohol concentrations above .04, but the writing is crisp and engaging even for the sober. Review: Buy a bottle of hooch, or buy this book? Hmmmmmm.... - Frank Kelly Rich, the insuperable genius behind Modern Drunkard Magazine, has collected and edited his timeless works in a form for their most efficient use in "The Modern Drunkard Handbook." For those unfamiliar with MDM, this is an excellent introduction. But make no mistake: magazine loyalists also will not be disappointed, for the arrangement of previous works alone is worth the price of this book, as Rich has performed a yeoman's task of assembling a full arsenal of weapons to keep us all well-oiled. Chapters include excellent advice on "how to throw the best party you'll never remember," how to "execute a proper bender," how to coax bartenders (all drunks themselves) to be on your side against bar owner's and management's interests, how to fight off teetotalling do-gooders and fight back at "America's joyless obsession with sobriety." His classic piece on "how to ace an intervention" is both laugh out loud funny and helpful at the same time. Rich's self-written publicity flyer describes "The Modern Drunkard Handbook" in contrast: "This is no hoary collection of cocktail recipes or drinking quotes--it is a full-bore, no-holds-barred guide for drinking in the 21st Century." Rich is taking a woozy ham-fisted swipe at the equally good "The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers on the Joy of Drinking" by Charles A. Coulombe. The books are entirely different, and equally welcome on the same shelf of unapologetic sauce hounds. For where Coulombe invokes memories of drinking in bygone eras where hunting and chivalry were in flower, covering Waugh, Twain, Irving, Belloc and Chesterton in the same collection with Beowulf, Rich invokes memories of drinking in bygone eras in which Stewardesses were deflowered covering Martin, Sinatra, and Gleason. They are all at the Great Wedding Feast at Cana in the sky now, and dickering about the merits of one past boozy era's superiority over another in combating the faux-Puritanism so prevalent now strikes me as simply the source for another jar and a fruitful discussion, not an attack. Frank Kelly Rich has a prose style that both cuts and astounds. Indeed, at his height he is the equal of the great unsurpassed Florence King in making the literate boozehead laugh out loud. And Rich never breaks character, indeed he is the world's most persuasive sauce hound in his chapters on how to deal with an intervention and issues of drinking and health (hint: it is healthier to drink). But as an added bonus, the illustrations are priceless. Art Deco, Arte Modern, Belle Epoche, and glorious 50's American Commercial Art are all combined in a deft hand that strikes just the right visual tone to accompany the text. Your art geek friends will love its timeless and retro-moderne look. This is an excellent book that should have a widespread and proud audience. It is the perfect Chritmas gift for those who drink their Thanksgiving dinner. Get your copy today, and give "The Modern Drunkard Handbook" to all your friends. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,030,599 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,623 in Humor Essays (Books) #2,618 in Self-Help & Psychology Humor #3,890 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 76 Reviews | ## Images ![The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91j2wz2VTBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Guide to Empowerment Disguised as Booze Manual *by D***E on June 5, 2006* This masterpiece has an important subtext: Your time is your own. In an era filled with workaholic boss-kissers toiling 24/7 so some corporation's stock can increase a quarter of a point, it's important for us all to remember that the point of hard work, achievement, fame, and fortune, is the enjoyment of life. Rich's message is the same as the recommendations of the most popular self-help gurus of our era-- be present in the current moment, behave in ways that are consistent with your true values, and all else will fall into place. If alcohol helps you reach these goals, then pursue it with unabashed abandon. Don't harm others and keep the harm to yourself to a minimum, and your joy will increase. The humor improves at blood alcohol concentrations above .04, but the writing is crisp and engaging even for the sober. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buy a bottle of hooch, or buy this book? Hmmmmmm.... *by B***R on November 14, 2005* Frank Kelly Rich, the insuperable genius behind Modern Drunkard Magazine, has collected and edited his timeless works in a form for their most efficient use in "The Modern Drunkard Handbook." For those unfamiliar with MDM, this is an excellent introduction. But make no mistake: magazine loyalists also will not be disappointed, for the arrangement of previous works alone is worth the price of this book, as Rich has performed a yeoman's task of assembling a full arsenal of weapons to keep us all well-oiled. Chapters include excellent advice on "how to throw the best party you'll never remember," how to "execute a proper bender," how to coax bartenders (all drunks themselves) to be on your side against bar owner's and management's interests, how to fight off teetotalling do-gooders and fight back at "America's joyless obsession with sobriety." His classic piece on "how to ace an intervention" is both laugh out loud funny and helpful at the same time. Rich's self-written publicity flyer describes "The Modern Drunkard Handbook" in contrast: "This is no hoary collection of cocktail recipes or drinking quotes--it is a full-bore, no-holds-barred guide for drinking in the 21st Century." Rich is taking a woozy ham-fisted swipe at the equally good "The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers on the Joy of Drinking" by Charles A. Coulombe. The books are entirely different, and equally welcome on the same shelf of unapologetic sauce hounds. For where Coulombe invokes memories of drinking in bygone eras where hunting and chivalry were in flower, covering Waugh, Twain, Irving, Belloc and Chesterton in the same collection with Beowulf, Rich invokes memories of drinking in bygone eras in which Stewardesses were deflowered covering Martin, Sinatra, and Gleason. They are all at the Great Wedding Feast at Cana in the sky now, and dickering about the merits of one past boozy era's superiority over another in combating the faux-Puritanism so prevalent now strikes me as simply the source for another jar and a fruitful discussion, not an attack. Frank Kelly Rich has a prose style that both cuts and astounds. Indeed, at his height he is the equal of the great unsurpassed Florence King in making the literate boozehead laugh out loud. And Rich never breaks character, indeed he is the world's most persuasive sauce hound in his chapters on how to deal with an intervention and issues of drinking and health (hint: it is healthier to drink). But as an added bonus, the illustrations are priceless. Art Deco, Arte Modern, Belle Epoche, and glorious 50's American Commercial Art are all combined in a deft hand that strikes just the right visual tone to accompany the text. Your art geek friends will love its timeless and retro-moderne look. This is an excellent book that should have a widespread and proud audience. It is the perfect Chritmas gift for those who drink their Thanksgiving dinner. Get your copy today, and give "The Modern Drunkard Handbook" to all your friends. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Fun Read *by D***. on April 13, 2010* Simple and to the point: What a great book! I rarely have time or energy to read a book after working 1 full-time and 1 part-time job... meshed together with a 1 hour commute to work each way. However, when I started reading this book - I seemed unable to put it down. Very well written satire that made me laugh on a couple of occasions. Even after a long day, I leave the TV off and picked up this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/20828579-the-modern-drunkard-a-handbook-for-drinking-in-the-21st](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/20828579-the-modern-drunkard-a-handbook-for-drinking-in-the-21st) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-11-10*