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Newspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906
by
H.L. Mencken
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, Prejud...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
August 28th 2006
by The Johns Hopkins University Press
(first published 1941)
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Mencken's acerbic wit comes through, and the stuff on how turn of the century print journalism functioned on a day-to-day level is very interesting. But the material doesn't really allow mencken's skills as an essayist or a journalist to shine through to full effect.
A tangy and giddy memoir of Mencken's days as a journalist. A charming view into the good old days of journalism, filled with wry anecdotes about Baltimore and the newspaper business, before the days of radio and TV.
Timeless writing and a stark reminder of how news gathering has withered to a souless enterprise.
Delightful.
Probably more for real Mencken fans than newbies. Full of long-forgotten people who made deep impressions on Mencken 100 years ago, when Mencken was a newspaper reporter and managing editor but none achieved his stature. Nice tribute, but frequently reads like a disconnected laundry list. Some good insights, but not the reading pleasure of the first in the trilogy, "Happy Days."
Be aware that Mencken is very much a man of his time, bigoted, misognystic, parochial. If you can get past that, this is a terrific book, funny, smart, and you can practically smell the Baltimore waterfront and taste the oyster stew.
in a time before journalism schools,most reporters were simply failed novelists. the writing was so much better. and the coverage was at least as good as we have it now.
mencken was the best of his generation.
mencken was the best of his generation.
if you have any interest in print journalism, this book is agreat look back
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Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken became one of the most influential and prolific journalists in America in the 1920s and '30s, writing about all the shams and con artists in the world. He attacked chiropractors and the Ku Klux Klan, politicians and other journalists. Most of all, he attacked Puritan morality. He called Puritanism, "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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