{"product_id":"do-you-remember-the-whimsical-letters-of-h-l-mencken-and-philip-goodman-9780938420545","title":"Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jack Sanders\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Maryland Center for History and Culture\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing \u003ci\u003eThe Smart Set\u003c\/i\u003e in New York and working on \u003ci\u003eThe American \u003c\/i\u003eLanguage 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maryland Center for History and Culture","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47781202526359,"sku":"9780938420545","price":2442.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780938420545.webp?v=1778051480","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/do-you-remember-the-whimsical-letters-of-h-l-mencken-and-philip-goodman-9780938420545","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}