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Do You Remember? – The Whimsical Letters of H L Mencken and Phillip Goodman

Jack Sanders author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Maryland Historical Society

Published:26th Feb '76

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In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.

ISBN: 9780938420545

Dimensions: 203mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 950g

208 pages