Newspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906 (Volume 2) (Buncombe Collection) - Softcover

Mencken, H. L. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801885345 ISBN 13: 9780801885341

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Synopsis

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.

About this title

About the Author

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.

Review

Warm and witty memories of the great politicos of the place and period, its wiseacres, its buffoons, its city-room characters, its preposterous stories.

(New Yorker)

Newspaper Days charts Mencken's career at the Morning Herald... Only the most pusillanimous gnostic could turn up his nose at these passages, for they exude an uncomplicated delight.

(Brendan O'Donnell Ex Libris)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0801885345
• ISBN 13: 9780801885341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336