Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir By H.L. Mencken

Hobson, Fred; Fitzpatrick Vincent; Jacobs, Bradford

ISBN 10: 0801847915 / ISBN 13: 9780801847912

Edité par Johns Hopkins, 1994

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First edition of this collection of stories by H. L. Mencken about newspapering, primarily at the Baltimore Evening Sun. Mencken had placed an embargo on this material before his death in 1956 and much of it provides fresh additions to the memoirs he'd published during his life. 390 pages. Minimal sign of previous use.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir By H.L. Mencken
• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801847915
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801847912
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

In January 1991 the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened the sealed manuscript of H.L. Mencken's "Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work". Written in 1941-42 and bequeathed to the library under time-lock upon Mencken's death in 1956, it is among the very last of his papers opened to the public. "Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work", a one-volume edition of highlights from the manuscript, pictures the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism. Here Mencken recalls his years - mostly with the Baltimore "Evening Sun" - as a reporter and a writer of editorials that always caused a stir among the public and riots of indignation among his enemies. The volume includes important new materials on his coverage of presidential candidates from 1929 to 1940 (Mencken on Harding's inaugural address: "a string of wet sponges") and the 1925 trial of the man he called "the infidel Scopes". Mencken also describes his brief stint as a war correspondent on Germany's sub-zero Eastern Front in 1917 and the perilous voyage back, which took him through Havana just as a revolution was breaking out. (He stayed to cover it). He writes about the "inevitable" war and likely fate of Germany's Jews during a final visit to his ancestral homeland in summer 1938. And he describes colourful Baltimore personalities, shares local gossip, and offers candid - usually unflattering - portraits of the politicians and clerics he mostly despised.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 MenckenÕs 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. Written in 1941Ð42, these highlights capture the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.