| Edition |
1st Perennial ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 410 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-398) and index. |
| Contents |
"I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899 -- "A sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906 -- "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914 -- "The Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918 -- "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923 -- "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928 -- "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935 -- "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941 -- "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948 -- "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 |
006050529X |
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