Newspaper Days - Mencken''s Autobiography: 1899-1906

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 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 classics: 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: H. L. Mencken, Mencken H. L.
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.11.2006
• EAN: 9780801885341
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8534-1
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf; Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
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