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.

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.

Introduction

ix

Note on the Manuscript and Editorial Method

xxiii

Chronology

xxvii

Dramatis Personae

xxxiii

Preface

1

(186)

1. Young Editor Out of a Job, 1906-1910

7

(19)

2. Prime Minister Without Portfolio, 1910-1914

26

(49)

3. Minority of One, 1914-1919 52.

4. My Ex-Best Girl Has Designs on You, 1919-1920

75

(25)

5. Fruits of Versailles, 1920-1922

100

(17)

6. That Man in Baltimore, 1922-1924

117

(19)

7. Make Tennessee Forever Infamous, 1925

136

(14)

8. Grand Tour of the South, 1925-1926

150

(13)

9. The Knavish Dishonesty of Politicians, 1928

163

(24)

10. No Desire to Be Admired by Morons, 1929-1931

187

(26)

11. Prohibition Was on the Rocks, 1932-1934

213

(25)

12. Battle in the Grand Manner, 1934

238

(27)

13. Snake Charmers, 1933-1937

265

(35)

14. A Chapter Had Ended, 1937-1939

300

(24)

15. Leaving the Stage, 1939-1941

324

(31)

APPENDIX A. An Editorial Memorandum (1919)

355

(13)

APPENDIX B. Gridiron Club Speech, December 8, 1934

368

(5)

Epilogue

373

(4)

Acknowledgments

377

(2)

Index

379

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