Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
of H.L. Mencken
Series: H. L. Mencken's Autobiography #2
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In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his early years as a reporter. On January 16, 1899, H.L. Mencken applied for a job with the Baltimore Morning Herald, much to the editor's amusement. But Mencken persisted, and came back to the offices night after night until finally, in February, the editor sent him out into a blizzard to see if anything worth printing was happening on the snow-covered streets. Soon, Mencken was assigned to the police beat, and then to city hall, where the really big crooks worked.Mencken learned his craft so well that by 1901 he became the Herald 's Sunday editor, and by 1906 was hired as an editor of the Baltimore Sun, where he quickly attracted a national following. Sustained by a steady diet of crabs, cigars, whiskey, and beer, he haunted Baltimore's jails and courtrooms, its churches, theaters, and saloons, and chased fire wagons, interviewed cops and coroners, battled politicians and crusaders, and raced back to the newsroom to beat his deadline by a second or two.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date July 30th 1996
- First Publication 11/06/41
- Language Not informed
- ISBN 9780801853401
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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