Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman
Sanders, Jack
ISBN 10: 0938420542 ISBN 13: 9780938420545
Published by The Maryland Center for History and Culture, 1975
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In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.
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Title: Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H...
Publisher: The Maryland Center for History and Culture
Publication Date: 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New