Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892

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.

Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the New Yorker. Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

• Author
• H.L. Mencken

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Series
• H. L. Mencken's Autobiography

• Publisher
• Johns Hopkins University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780801885310

• Genres
• biography, memoir, journalism, american, history

• Release date
• 2006