Cecelia Tichi is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of nine books, including Jazz Age Cocktails (NYU Press, 2021), Gilded Age Cocktails (NYU Press, 2021), What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age (NYU Press, 2018) and Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (UNC Press, 2011).