Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman

by Philip Goodman, H.L. Mencken, Jack Sanders, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938420542
• ISBN13: 9780938420545
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.2"