Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: Born in Riverton, North Carolina, Gerald White Johnson (1890-1980) served as one of the most eloquent spokespersons for America's adversary culture in the twentieth century. His prolific career spanned nearly seventy-five years and produced approximately fifteen million words...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "No greater prose stylist ever wrote for an American newspaper. It is always useful and enjoyable to be reminded of this, as Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work most certainly does... Should be required reading not merely for all newspaper people but for all those who labor in what we now call 'the media...read more

An introduction to Mencken's life and work are profiled drawing upon his extensive correspondence of roughly 100,000 letters stressing his belief in the need for free speech