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Newspaper Days

Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906

H L Mencken author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:31st Oct '06

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

ISBN: 9780801885341

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 522g

336 pages