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In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter reminiscing about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.

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Author

Jack Sanders

Publisher

The Maryland Center for History and Culture

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780938420545

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14