This is the first biography since his death of the man Edmund Wilson has called the "greatest practicing literary journalist" since Poe. It is also the first fully documented life to be issued. Mr. Bode has based his book on a host of Mencken letters, many unpublished; on family papers; on a variety of Mencken materials in print and out; and on many taped interviews with remaining friends of Mencken as well as with some of his old enemies. Two other things about the book are important "firsts." The book analyzes Mencken's ...
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This is the first biography since his death of the man Edmund Wilson has called the "greatest practicing literary journalist" since Poe. It is also the first fully documented life to be issued. Mr. Bode has based his book on a host of Mencken letters, many unpublished; on family papers; on a variety of Mencken materials in print and out; and on many taped interviews with remaining friends of Mencken as well as with some of his old enemies. Two other things about the book are important "firsts." The book analyzes Mencken's writing as it related to his life. And the book indicates the relation of Mencken to his time Mr Bode's Mencken takes us from the almost pastoral Baltimore of the 1880's when Mencken was a boy; through World War I when Mencken was termed a traitor; into the Roaring Twenties when he was the decade's leading intel lectual, magazine editor, and newspaper man; into the Depression when his influence sank to nearly nothing; then into the 1940's when he issued his mellow reminiscences; and finally to his last years in Baltimore. Among the chapters are: "Daily and Sunday," "Dreiser and the Fruits of Dissidence," "The Mercury: Mencken's Mind and Art," "Mainstay of the Sun, " "Mencken, Darwin, and God," "Mencken in Love," "The Circus of Dr. R.," and "Friends and Familiars."
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Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Brown cloth. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Category: literature; ISBN: 0809303760. ISBN/EAN: 9780809303762. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12452.
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Fine. Book Not ex-lib. Softcover in grey wraps with b/w photo ofMencken across front, large 12mo/small8vo. ix + 452pp. B/W plates on paper; endnotes, index. Fine. Very mild edgewear to upper spine end. Else clean, tight, square and unmarked.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Chipping & small open tears to price clipped DJ; From boyhood in Baltimore to the Scopes trial to the founding of the American Mercury, if there was a great literary moment, Henry Louis Mencken was involved; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 452 pages.
