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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780938420545
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-938420-54-5
- Verlag: Maryland Center for History and Culture
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1976
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1976
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Seiten: 208
- Format (B x H x T): 162 x 209 x 21 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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