Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from theAmerican Mercury, theSmart Set, and theBaltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all. Readers will find edification...
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books the six installments of the Prejudices...
H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: My Life as Author and Editor is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine Smart Set, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who...
H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: My Life as Author and Ed...
In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes of memoirs, and a steady stream of journalism that made him loved and hated, sometimes by the same person. For Minority Report, he read through his notebooks, extracting those pieces he thought most true, most pertinent, most precise or most likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain. Here he shows off his skill with the aphorism, or stinger: The most expensive thing on earth is to believe in something that is palpably not true; We must...
In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes ...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
Most of these...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
In the third...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
In 1956,...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
In the second...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
These...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
Controversial...
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the -language of the free lunch counter, - Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for ne...
