Newspaper Days 1899-1906
A Journalism, Nonfiction, Literature book. I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much...
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I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace. H.L. Mencken, Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 : Volume 2 of Mencken's Autobiography
This might of been an interesting book if Mencken was able to rein in his outsized ego. In one account, Mencken, a young newspaperman living in Baltimore and whose only other experience was working in his Uncle's cigar business, gets a jump on the other papers by astutely describing a naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War which has... I immensely enjoyed this part of H.L. Mencken's memoirs, reminiscing about his days as a young reporter and editor in Baltimore at the turn of the last century. Of course, more time had passed between his era and when I started in the newspaper business than the time I've been in the business altogether, but still, there were so many... Mencken's acerbic wit comes through, and the stuff on how turn of the century print journalism functioned on a day-to-day level is very interesting. But the material doesn't really allow mencken's skills as an essayist or a journalist to shine through to full effect.
