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Mencken
Views the distinguished editor's career from his beginnings as a Baltimore reporter, bringing into view his great influence on the American literary world in the twenties and thirties
- GenresBiography
452 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
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August 23, 2015
Well. Here is a very good expose of the most brilliant journalist in the history of America. Bode has done his research and brought us about as close as can be known about Mencken's career and writings. Mencken's influnace can be seen in the writers of the time such as Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson and also in the investigative reporting we have today. If Mencken was alive today he would be sharing an apartment in Moscow with Edward Snowden. Of course there would be problems for them. Mencken loved sea food and lots of bourbon where as Snowden perfers pizza, hamburgers and pepsi. Sounds like to would be a nightmare brewing or perhaps simmering.
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