| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliograpical references (pages [391]-398) and index. |
| Contents |
1. "I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899 -- 2. "A sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906 -- 3. "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914 -- 4. "The Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918 -- 5. "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923 -- 6. "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928 -- 7. "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935 -- 8. "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941 -- 9. "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948 -- 10. "Until thought and memory adjourn" : scourge at bay, 1948-1956. |
| Subject |
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Editors -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0060505281 |
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006050529X Harper Perennial |
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