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Our obsession with H.L. Mencken
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable…” There you have it. One quote that compresses why we…
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PREJUDICES: Fourth series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES SERIES) – H.L. Mencken
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of…
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PREJUDICES: First series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES SERIES) – H.L. Mencken
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of…
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PREJUDICES: Second series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES SERIES) – H.L. Mencken
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of…
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PREJUDICES: Third series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES SERIES) – H.L. Mencken
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of…
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NIETZSCHE by MENCKEN: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche – H.L. Mencken
“The best, clearest summary of Nietzsche’s philosophy and a wonderful medicine for anyone sick with self-doubt or apathy.” In 1908 the first book on Nietzsche ever to appear in English, this examination by legendary journalist H. L. Mencken is still one of the most enlightening. Mencken wrote this book while still in his 20s, but…
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DAMN! A Book of Calumny – H.L. Mencken
“Damn, A book of Calumny” is a collection of writings by journalist, essayist, iconoclast and most of all a contrarian H.L. Mencken. This collection is without a clear narrative. Unless of course we consider the personality of Mencken as the real narrative of this collection. He writes with conviction and eloquence, a man who convinces…
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Youth and Egolatry – Pio Baroja, H.L. Mencken
“He is the Spaniard of education and worldly wisdom, detached from the mediaeval imbecilities of the old régime and yet aloof from the worse follies of the demagogues who now rage in the country.”– H.L. Mencken – Pío Baroja is a product of the intellectual reign of terror that went on in Spain after the…
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In Defense of Women – H.L. Mencken
“Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women’s rights or ‘the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer’, ‘the country’s high-priest of woman-haters.’”– A critic – American iconoclast, author, critic and journalist, H.L. Mencken maintained that ‘the average woman, whatever her deficiencies, is greatly superior to the average man. The very…