{"product_id":"9780801885310-happy-days-menckens-autobiography-1880-1892","title":"Happy Days","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892. Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s. 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. Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the  New Yorker. Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55177555345782,"sku":"9780801885310","price":36.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28326827.jpg?v=1737581865","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780801885310-happy-days-menckens-autobiography-1880-1892","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}