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Do You Remember?
Jack Sanders
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Description for Do You Remember?
Hardback. 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.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Maryland Historical Society United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780938420545
SKU
V9780938420545
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Ref
99-50
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