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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
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 : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307831116
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Second Mencken Chrestomathy written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was any such thing as political correctness, H. L. Mencken was flouting it. He was also cheerfully deriding the precursors of family values and lambasting the guardians of public virtue. This historic new collection is further evidence that Mencken was our most astute, stylish, and biliously funny commentator on the eternal American quackeries. A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (a word meaning “a collection of choice passages from an author or authors”) was compiled by the sage of Baltimore before he suffered the stroke that ended his career and has only now been retrieved from his private papers by the columnist and Mencken biographer Terry Teachout. Its 238 selections—many of which have never before been published in book form—encompass subjects from Americana (“The Commonwealth of Morons”) to men and women (“Sex on the Stage”) and from criminology (“More and Better Psychopaths”) to the pursuit of happiness (“Alcohol”). The result is Mencken at his most engaging, maddening, heretical, and hilarious.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885495
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)
Download or read book A Second Mencken Chrestomathy written by H. L. Mencken and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. Discovered among his private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this collection is full of the iconoclastic common sense that marked Mencken’s astonishing career as the premier American social critic of the twentieth century. This chrestomathy (“a collection of literary passages”) incorporates writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and the brethren of the cloth.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885365
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Treatise on the Gods written by H. L. Mencken and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030783087X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Happy Days written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing—from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885334
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Minority Report written by H. L. Mencken and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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, Mencken read through his notebooks and extracted those pieces he thought truest, most pertinent, most precise, or most likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Dissident Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977378838
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (788 download)
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 : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307808874
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Mencken Chrestomathy written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all. Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans—Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.
Author : Professor H L Mencken
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781646793600
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
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.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801853807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, written by H.L. Mencken in 1941-42 and only opened to the public in 1991, 35 years after his death, portrays the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism. Mencken recalls his years as a reporter, including his coverage of presidential candidates from 1912 to 1940.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895262318
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
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.
Author : Henry L. Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Mencken chrestomathy written by Henry L. Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hl Mencken
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016043557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)
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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780226519777
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Carnival of Buncombe written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides lively critiques of the elections and policies of American presidents ranging from Warren Harding to Franklin Roosevelt
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307808785
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book American Language Supplement 1 written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)
Download or read book A Mencken Chrestomathy written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hart, D. G.
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873448
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
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.
