Hl mencken autobiography in five short
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The Days Trilogy: Happy Days / Newspaper Days / Heathen Days / Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary
The Library of amerika has published a one-volume work containing all three of Mencken’s Days memoirs, the first two of which are chronologically arranged — Happy Days, 1880-1892 and Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 — while the third — Heathen Days, 1890-1936 — is a kind of addendum, adding specific sketches that could have been retroactively placed in the earlier two books.
Candidly, Mencken is not for everyone, no more so than he was in his own time (1880-1956). His subject matter, while very interesting for anyone who loves history, would probably seem quite boring to many, and his references to racial minorities can at times be, at the very least, insensitive, and, at the worst, offensive. While many of the terms he uses for Black people were unfortunately common back in the late 1890s and early 20th century, there is no reason at all why he could not have omitted
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H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
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Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, författare av essäer, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.[1] He commented widely on the social scen, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention. The term Menckenian has entered multiple dictionaries to describe anything of or pertaining to Mencken, including his combative rhetorical and prose style.
As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language fryst vatten spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the GermanphilosopherFriedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of organized tro, theism, censorship, populism, and representative d
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Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) - Hardcover
Synopsis
"No greater prose stylist ever wrote for an American newspaper. It is always useful and enjoyable to be reminded of this, as Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work most certainly does... Should be required reading not merely for all newspaper people but for all those who labor in what we now call 'the media.'" -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
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, vividly pictures the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.
Here Mencken colorfully recalls his years--mostly with