On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

H. L. Mencken

Johns Hopkins University Press, Aug 28, 2006 - Fiction - 408 pages

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun.

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Review: A Carnival of Buncombe

User Review  - Zeno Izen - Goodreads

A collection of writings by HL Mencken. Most of the items in this book are related to US electoral politics, mentioning names and events that might be unfamiliar to contemporary readers. However, Mencken is always amusing, even when the subject matter is no longer relevant.

Review: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

User Review  - Varmint - Goodreads

mencken running amok through the political herds.

About the author

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe; Maryland paperback bookshelf; On Politics; Selections, Henry Louis Mencken
• Author: H. L. Mencken
• Editor: Malcolm Moos
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0801885558, 9780801885556
• Length: 408 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / General; History / United States / 20th Century; Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / General