{"product_id":"a-saturnalia-of-bunk-selections-from-the-free-lance-1911-1915-hardback-9780821422700","title":"A Saturnalia of Bunk; Selections from the Free Lance, 1911–1915 (Hardback) 9780821422700","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Saturnalia of Bunk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelections from the Free Lance, 1911–1915\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eH. L. Mencken (Author), S. T. Joshi (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821422700\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This is the latest of Joshi’s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken’s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore’s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America’s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist.” - Richard J. Schrader, author of H.L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume \"In this collection … we get a sense of the issues that defined Mencken's voice—freedom from censorship and battling against temperance and other moral reform movements among them—and the passion behind a man hellbent on ridding his community of, as he writes, 'stupidity, flapdoodle, and buncombe.'\" (Baltimore Magazine) “This book fills a significant gap in the republication of Mencken’s newspaper work and criticism, and with Joshi’s judicious selection and substantial critical introduction, makes an important and useful contribution to Mencken scholarship.” - Frederick Betz, editor of Menckeniana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Evening Sun.\u003c\/i\u003e The next year he initiated a column-The Free Lance-that ran six days a week for four and a half years, until the \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e discontinued it, partially in response to Mencken’s controversial defense of Germany during World War One.\u003cbr\u003e In this early forum for his renowned wit, Mencken broached many of the issues to which he would return again and again over his career, establishing himself as a fearless iconoclast willing to tackle the most divisive subjects and apply a heady mix of observation, satire, and repartee to clear away what he regarded as the “saturnalia of bunk” that clouded American thinking. The Free Lance reveals Mencken at his scintillating best as a journalist, polemicist, and satirist.\u003cbr\u003e These columns are collected here for the first time, edited and annotated by Mencken expert and critic S. T. Joshi. This extraordinary collection is an invaluable resource for Mencken scholars and fans and provides an entertaining immersion into the early twentieth-century American zeitgeist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574540136728,"sku":"9780821422700","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-saturnalia-of-bunk-selections-from-the-free-lance-1911-1915-hardback-9780821422700","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}