Do You Remember?
The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman
Publisher: The Maryland Historical Society
Date of Publication: 29 July 2021
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780938420545 |
| ISBN10: | 0938420542 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 208 pages |
| Size: | 203x152 mm |
| Weight: | 431 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.
Long description:
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.
