Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work A Memoir

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. Written in 1941--42, these highlights capture the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.Mencken, H. L. is the author of 'Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work A Memoir', published 2006 under ISBN 9780801885563 and ISBN 0801885566.