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By H.L. Mencken

By H.L. Mencken

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Part of H.L. Mencken's Autobiography

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Mar 20, 2013 | ISBN 9780307830876

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About Happy Days

Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken’s most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing—from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.

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About H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and died there in 1956. He began his long career as a journalist, critic, and philologist on the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899. In 1906 he joined the staff of the… More about H.L. Mencken

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Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | 20th Century U.S. History | Literary Collections

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Published by Knopf
Mar 20, 2013 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307830876

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