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Book Synopsis H.L. Mencken by : Vincent Fitzpatrick
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.
Book Synopsis A Mencken Chrestomathy by : Henry Louis Mencken
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:
Book Synopsis H.L. Mencken on Religion by : H. L. Mencken
Download or read book H.L. Mencken on Religion written by H. L. Mencken and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). As a journalist, he gained national prominence through his newspaper columns describing the now-famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted 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 organized many of Mencken''s writings on religion in this provocative and entertaining collection. The articles here presented demonstrate that Mencken canvassed the entire range of religious phenomena of his time, from evangelists Billy Sunday and Aime Semple McPherson, to Christian Scientists, and theosophists and spiritualists. 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.If anything was sacred to Mencken, it was the right to speak one''s mind freely, and many of his attacks are directed against those true believers who he felt tried to foist their beliefs on others to stifle independent thinking. For everyone who values freethought and sharp intelligence, this collection of articles by America''s premier iconoclast is a must.
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.
Book Synopsis H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism by : H. L. Mencken
Download or read book H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism written by H. L. Mencken and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome the long overdue re-release of Mencken's continual war against conventional thinking.
Book Synopsis Prejudices: First Series by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book Prejudices: First Series written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Skeptic written by Terry Teachout and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mencken's energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful biography of this iconoclastic figure and the world he shaped.
Book Synopsis H. L. Mencken, Critic of American Life by : George H. Douglas
Download or read book H. L. Mencken, Critic of American Life written by George H. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Essays on H.L. Mencken by : Douglas C. Stenerson
Download or read book Critical Essays on H.L. Mencken written by Douglas C. Stenerson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of H.L. Mencken by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book The Diary of H.L. Mencken written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections cover the years 1930-1948. Provides observations on American society by the American newspaper columnist.
Book Synopsis A Book of Prefaces by : Henry Louis Mencken
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:
Book Synopsis In Defense of Women by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book In Defense of Women written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Arralin Books LLC. This book was released on 1922 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H.L. Mencken by : William Henry Nolte
Download or read book H.L. Mencken written by William Henry Nolte and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mencken's America by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book Mencken's America written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.
Book Synopsis The Impossible H.L. Mencken by : Henry Louis Mencken
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
Book Synopsis The Anglo-Saxon by : Professor H L Mencken
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon written by Professor H L Mencken and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1933-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The normal American of the 'pure-blooded' majority goes to rest every night with an uneasy feeling that there is a burglar under the bed and he gets up every morning with a sickening fear that his underwear has been stolen." -H. L. Mencken, The Anglo-Saxon (1923) The Anglo-Saxon (1923), is an essay by H. L. Mencken in which he criticized Anglo-Saxonism, a belief system of late 19th century and early 20th century promoting the superiority of English-speaking nations. Mencken, although he considered himself of true Anglo-Saxon ancestry, thought the American Anglo-Saxon to be inferior and weak.
Book Synopsis Mencken by : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Download or read book Mencken written by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever published about this giant of American letters. We see the prominent role he played in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining the shape of American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes.
