Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken Paperback - 2006
by H. L. Mencken; Fred Hobson (Editor); Vincent Fitzpatrick (Editor)
First line
Rather flatly, as if he were tallying the contents of one more cigar box, H. L. Mencken labeled this book "Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work."
From the rear cover
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 abridgement of Mencken's much longer memoir, vividly pictures the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism. Here Mencken colorfully 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 uproars of indignation among his enemies. The volume includes important new material on his coverage of presidential candidates from 1912 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 subzero 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, with curious detachment, 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 colorful Baltimore personalities, shares local gossip, and offers candid - usually unflattering - portraits of the politicians and clerics he mostly despised.
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- Title Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken
- Author H. L. Mencken; Fred Hobson (Editor); Vincent Fitzpatrick (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD:
- Date 2006-10-02
- ISBN 9780801885563 / 0801885566
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.96 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.44 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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