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.
These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun.
