A Mencken Chrestomathy
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
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Second Mencken Chrestomathy
Author: H.L. Mencken
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 0307831116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore 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.
Treatise on the Gods
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-10-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801885365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.
Happy Days
Author: H.L. Mencken
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 030783087X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough 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.
The Anglo-Saxon
Author: Professor H L Mencken
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 1933-07
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 9781646793600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Minority Report
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780801885334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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.
Notes on Democracy
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Dissident Books
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780977378838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
In Defense of Women
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Arralin Books LLC
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Impossible H.L. Mencken
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 9780385262088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the journalist's columns, on such topics as presidents, congressmen, publishers, food, music, sports, the American language, and movie stars
H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780895262318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome the long overdue re-release of Mencken's continual war against conventional thinking.
