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H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series (Library of America)
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Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the company of a writer of boundless curiosity and vivacious frankness. In the six volumes of Prejudices published between 1919 and 1927, Mencken attacked what he felt to be American provincialism and hypocrisy, and championed writers and thinkers he saw as harbingers of a new candor and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride over a staggering range of thematic territory: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink, music and painting, the absurdities of Prohibition and the dismal state of American higher education, and the relative merits of Baltimore and New York. Now, The Library of America restores the full text of Mencken's landmark work to print in a deluxe two- volume boxed set, ensuring that new generations of readers can rediscover his one-of-a-kind genius.
A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
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A choice selection of H.L. Mencken's previously out-of-print writings. Highly recommended!
H.L. Mencken on Religion
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No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H L Mencken. As a journalist, he gained national prominence through his newspaper columns describing the famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted religious fundamentalists against a public school teacher who dared to teach evolution. But both before and after the Scopes trial, Mencken spent much of his career as a columnist and book reviewer lampooning the ignorant piety of gullible Americans. S T Joshi has brought together and organised many of Mencken's writings on religion in this provocative and entertaining collection. The articles presented here include satirical accounts of a range of the religious phenomena of his time. On a more serious note are his discussions of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the scientific worldview as a rival to religious belief. Also included are poignant autobiographical accounts of Mencken's own upbringing and his core beliefs on religion, ethics, and politics. H.L. Mencken knew that satire, wit, and clever jesting were the most effective ways to battle religious folly, and he used these weapons to their fullest extent in writings spanning almost three decades.
Notes on Democracy
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- It is doubtless one of the most bracing books on politics in the history of the English language, and all the more remarkable that it was published in 1926.
- 2011 version includes a new introduction, extensive annotations by noted Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, and an afterword by two-constantly Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis.
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[Democracy] is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man... It 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...H.L. Mencken, America's greatest journalist and critic, wrote Notes on Democracy 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. Notes isn't just a blast from the past, but also a perceptive and unsentimental report on contemporary life.
Dissident Books is proud to reintroduce this gem of cynicism and clear-thinking to a new generation. Mencken performs a brilliant, merciless and often hilarious vivisection on that most holy of sacred cows: democracy. The new edition is supplemented by extensive annotations that put Mencken's words and ideas in context and expose fascinating details and nuances.
Don't even think about voting until you read this book!
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First Amendment Quote of the Day: HL Mencken - Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield News Journal, OH - May 25, 2009
First Amendment Quote of the Day: HL Mencken"If your editorial writer 'takes the fence,' thinking of the dangers of antagonizing somebody or other, including the publisher's wife, he can't write anything worth reading and it is not worth hiring him." First Amendment: "Congress shall make no
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Inside five newsrooms that HL Mencken wouldn't recognize - Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, MA - May 22, 2009
Nieman Journalism Lab at HarvardInside five newsrooms that HL Mencken wouldn't recognizeBy Zachary M. Seward / today / 9:59 am On this Friday before the long weekend, we've put together five video tours of newsrooms that are new, innovative, or otherwise noteworthy. The first, above, is one I shot during a visit to Talking Points Memo
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The Problem of Affirmative Action
Atlantic Online - May 29, 2009
HL Mencken once defined Fundamentalism as "the terrible, pervasive fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun". I've been thinking of this a lot watching some of the attacks on Sotomayor, but I'd frame the critics as suffering from the terrible,
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Is The 'Jon And Kate Plus Eight' Story The Future Of Journalism? - Gawker
Gawker, NY - May 31, 2009
GawkerIs The 'Jon And Kate Plus Eight' Story The Future Of Journalism? at putting together a coherent picture of the perks said "reality" stars are getting as well as devoting a recent wide-eyed 2100 words to documenting the phenomenon (that manages to get the headline wrong and heartily begin with an HL Mencken quote).
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Mencken on Schwarzenegger, California, Prop. 13 - Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun, United States - May 21, 2009
Mencken on Schwarzenegger, California, Prop. 13HL Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." California's tendency to require statewide ballots on anything and everything is the latest evidence that direct, Athenian-style
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