"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.'" -- Jonathan
Yardley, Washington Post Book World
In January 1991 the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened the sealed
manuscript of H. L. Mencken's "Thirty-five Years of Newspaper
Work." Written in 1941-42 and bequeathed to the library under
time-lock upon Mencken's death in 1956, it is among the very last
of his papers opened to the public. Thirty-five Years of Newspaper
Work, a one-volume edition of highlights from the manuscript,
vividly pictures the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of
print journalism.
Here Mencken colorfully recalls his years--mostly with the
Baltimore Evening Sun--as a reporter and a writer of editorials
that always caused a stir among the public and riots of indignation
among his enemies. The volume includes important new material on
his coverage of presidential candidates from 1912 to 1940 and the
1925 trial of the man he called the "infidel Scopes."
"The book reveals a man who loved food, alcohol, cigars, and
good friends... Mencken had so many friends in high places that a
few well-placed telephone calls invariably got him to the heart of
the matter and revealed more information than any other reporter
could solicit." -- Raymond L. Fischer, USA Today
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