Scrapbook of H.L. Mencken articles [manuscript], 1915-1956.

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Scrapbook of H.L. Mencken articles [manuscript], 1915-1956.

Scrapbook, compiled by R.B. Lasco, contains newsclippings of articles by H.L. Mencken, Frank Richardson Kent and others published in the Baltimore "Evening Sun." Many of the Kent articles were written for his newspaper columns "The great game of politics" and "Candidates and their ways."

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SNAC Resource ID: 7921654

University of Virginia. Library

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Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Kent, Frank R. (Frank Richardson), 1877-1958

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