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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385262088
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible H.L. Mencken written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the journalist's columns, on such topics as presidents, congressmen, publishers, food, music, sports, the American language, and movie stars

Author : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019533129X
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mencken written by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men. This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than moderate intelligence and an awfully good time. --Martin Nolan, Boston Globe

Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mencken Chrestomathy written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on Democracy written by H. L. Mencken and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on Democracy is a critique of democracy. The book places political leaders into two categories: the demagogue, who "preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots" and the demaslave, "who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself." Mencken depicts politicians as "men who have sold their honor for their jobs."

Author : Vincent Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865549210
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.L. Mencken written by Vincent Fitzpatrick and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a career that spanned half of a century, Henry Louis Mencken published more than 10 million words. More than a million were written about him, many of which, Mencken liked to remark, were highly condemnatory. He was called, with good reason, the most powerful private citizen in America during the 1920s.This lively introduction to Mencken's life and work begins with a concise biographical portrait before proceeding to a consideration of the five major periods of the renowned Baltimorean's career: his literary apprenticeship; the growth of his national reputation; his fame and unprecedented popularity during the 1920s (when college students would flash the Paris-green cover of the American Mercury as a badge of sophistication); the decline of his reputation during the Depression; and his renewed popularity during the 1940s, with the publication of his autobiographical trilogy, the Days books. In discussing this varied career, Vincent Fitzpatrick touches upon all the roles that Mencken played: journalist; editor; redoubtable critic of literature, culture, and politics; philologist; and autobiographer. Drawing upon Mencken's extensive correspondence of more than 100,000 letters, the book stresses his unflagging belief in the need for free speech (up to the limits of common decency). Indeed, in the end Mencken proved a significant American civil libertarian.Iconoclast, critic, satirist, "individualist," H. L. Mencken offered unique insights into American life. His lifelong celebration of the freedom to dissent marks his most enduring contribution to a nation that gave him such a wealth of material and so much delight.

Author : Hart, D. G.
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873448
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damning Words written by Hart, D. G. and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author--and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken's life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken's relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Using plenty of Mencken's own words, Damning Words superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and, at the same time, casts telling new light on his era.

Author : Hl Mencken
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016043557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prejudices written by Hl Mencken and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Prefaces written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1917 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Dissident Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977378838
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on Democracy written by H. L. Mencken and published by Dissident Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect book for the 2012 elections. . . and beyond![Democracy] [i]is based on propositions that are palpably not true-and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true...[/i]H.L. Mencken wrote [i]Notes on Democracy[/i] over 80 years ago. His time, the paranoid and intolerant years of World War I, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial, is strikingly like our own. [i]Notes[/i] isn't just a blast from the past; it's a perceptive report on today.In Notes, Mencken conducts a bold, libertarian attack on intrusive government, special interest groups, and mob rule that's as relevant today as it was in the 1920s.Notes has something that will appeal to -- and offend -- everyone. Liberals will love Mencken's denunciation of jingoism; conservatives and libertarians will root for his attacks on meddling laws, hand-outs, and equality.The new edition includes an introduction and annotations by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast, and an afterword by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis.

Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of H.L. Mencken written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: