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Mencken revisited : author, editor & newspaperman / S.L. Harrison ; with a prologue by Russell Baker.
Van Pelt Library PS3525.E43 Z582 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, S. L. (Stanley L.), 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
- Mencken, H. L.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Editors--United States--Biography.
- Editors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1999]
- Contents:
- Prologue: "Death in the Family" / Russell Baker xiii
- Chapter 1 Meeting Mencken 1
- Chapter 2 Money Matters 7
- Chapter 3 Prejudice Without Discrimination 23
- Chapter 4 Talent Scout 35
- Chapter 5 The Scopes Trial: Mencken's Media Circus 45
- Chapter 6 Mencken's War Against the South 61
- Chapter 7 Free Speech, Free Press 71
- Chapter 8 Editorial Guidelines 83
- Chapter 9 Schimpflexikon Updated 93
- Chapter 10 Marching into the Millennium 97.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Books by H.L. Mencken": pages [119]-122.
- ISBN:
- 0761814507
- OCLC:
- 41439553
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