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 Day
s,
Prejudices
Treatise on the Gods
On Politics
Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work
Minority Report
, and
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
.
In 1956, Mencken read through his notebooks and extracted those pieces he thought truest, most pertinent, most precise, or most likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain.