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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Book Description Condition: New. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431. . 1976. Hardback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780938420545
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 775409-n
Book Description Condition: New. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431. . 1976. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780938420545