Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work

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.