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. In the second volume of his autobiography Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.