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Book Interview: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the Expanded “Days” of H. L. Mencken

In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: American history, H. L. Mencken, Happy Days, Heathen Days, Library-of-America, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, memoir, Newspaper Days, Notes, The Days Trilogy

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