num_pages: 336
description: 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 Happy Days , Heathen Days , Newspaper Day s, Prejudices , Treatise on the Gods , On Politics , Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work , Minority Report , and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy . 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 Happy Days , Heathen Days , Newspaper Day s, 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.
language: English
title: Newspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906 (Volume 2)
titlecomplete: Newspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906 (Volume 2) (Buncombe Collection)
genres: American, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Journalism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 123
series: H. L. Mencken's Autobiography
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press