- Title : PREJUDICES: Fourth series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES)
- Publisher : Notoir books (September 16, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 254 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8353122838
- Item Weight : 13.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.58 x 8.5 inches
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 as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity. This is PREJUDICES: Fourth series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES).
Although this tome is laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken’s prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink.
PREJUDICES: Fourth series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES) is part of a series. You can buy them one-by-one, but the smart thing to do is to BUY THE WHOLE SERIES.
Prejudices: Fourth series contains the following essays:
1. THE AMERICAN TRADITION
2. THE HUSBANDMAN
3. HIGH AND GHOSTLY MATTERS
The Cosmic Secretariat
The Nature of Faith
The Devotee
The Restoration of Beauty
End-Product
Another
Holy Clerks
4. JUSTICE UNDER DEMOCRACY
5. REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN MONOGAMY
The Eternal Farce
Venus at the Domestic Hearth
The Rat-trap
The Love Chase
Women as Realpolitiker
Footnote for Suffragettes
The Helpmate
The Mime
Cavia Cobaya
The Survivor
The Veteran’s Disaster
Moral Indignation
The Man and His Shadow
The Balance-Sheet
Yearning
6. THE POLITICIAN
7. FROM A CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Progress
The Iconoclast
The Artists’ Model
The Good Citizen as Artist
Definitive Judgments
8. TOTENTANZ
9. MEDITATIONS IN THE METHODIST DESERT
The New Galahad
Optimist vs. Optimist
Caveat for the Defense
Portrait of an Ideal World
10. ESSAY IN CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
11. ON THE NATURE OF MAN
The Animal That Thinks
Veritas Odium Parit
The Eternal Cripple
All things considered
National Characters
The Goal
Psychology at 5 A. M.
The Reward
The Altruist
The Man of Honor
12. BUGABOO
13. ON GOVERNMENT
14. TOWARD A REALISTIC ÆSTHETIC
The Nature of Art
The One-Legged Art
Symbiosis and the Artist
15. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF VULGAR PSYCHOLOGY
The Downfall of the Navy
The Mind of the Slave
The Art Eternal
16. THE AMERICAN NOVEL
17. PEOPLE AND THINGS
The Capital of a Great Republic
Ambassadors of Christ
Bilder aus schöner Zeit
The High Seas
The Shrine of Mnemosyne
As a matter of fact
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