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 . Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the New Yorker . Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.
language: English
title: Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 (Volume 1)
titlecomplete: Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 (Volume 1) (Bumcombe Collection)
genres: Biography, American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 115
series: H. L. Mencken's Autobiography
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press