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<p>H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was an acerbic political, social, and cultural critic whose work appeared in magazines and newspapers across the US. Here are 25 essays published from 1913 into the 1930s on living in the US; the American landscape,; politics, morality and religion; and art, literature, and culture. Joshi, a Seattle-based writer who has edited several books of Mencken's writings, provides notes, a glossary of names, and an index. Annotation &copy;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>H.L. Mencken was a man who firmly believed that "[m]en are surely not at their worst when they say what they actually think, even if it is shocking to their neighbors," and 80 years after some of these essays originally appeared in newspapers and magazines, his writings are still hard to resist. Mencken's wit and breadth of knowledge are apparent throughout this collection, but he is at his best and most timely when his targets are politics, the American character and the "militant Puritanism" that, according to him, shapes them both. His skewering of democracy as a system "this fundamental assumption that a group of idiots, if only its numbers be large enough,

Author

H.L. Mencken; S.T. Joshi

Publisher

Athens: Ohio University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780821415320

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities