Happy Days

Overview

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. 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. 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.

Details

Publisher

JHU Press

Published

2006-10-02

Pages

336

Language

EN

Categories

Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, History / General, History / United States / 20th Century, History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Literary Collections / Essays, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Social Science / Customs & Traditions

ISBN-13

9780801885310