H.L. Mencken on Liberty and Government
Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken was perhaps America's most outspoken defender of liberty in the first half of the 20th Century. And a major theme of his writings was that "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." It is worth ... [... more]
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The days of H.L. Mencken: Happy days, Newspaper days, ...
Author: H. L Mencken Binding: Unknown Binding Publication Date: 1947 [... more]
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Kathleen Parker
Kathleen Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist whose twice-weekly column runs in more than four hundred newspapers around the country. An H. L. Mencken Writing Award winner, she frequently appears on radio talk shows and is a regular guest ... [... more]
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H.L. Mencken
The anthology that spans an entire lifetime of writing by America's greatest curmudgeon, with a "flick of mischief on nearly every page." Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes ... [... more]
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George Schuyler
George S. Schuyler was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Syracuse, New York. As a result of his writings in magazines, including Crisis and Opportunity, he came to the attention of H. L. Mencken, who became his mentor. He ... [... more]
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Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theater, and film. He is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven novels. His most recent book, Commentary by H.L. Mencken, ... [... more]
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William Murray
Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers H. L. Mencken declared that "the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral." It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and . [... more]
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Disturber Of The Peace: The Life Of H.L. Mencken
 This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how he rose to his unique position as comic genius and pre-eminent critic of American culture. [... more]
$66.51
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H. L. Mencken on Theodore Dreiser
H. L. Mencken on Theodore Dreiser [... more]
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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
Amazon.com Review: Journalist, muckraker, political gadfly, atheist, and conservative dissident, H.L. Mencken "was to the first part of the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the last part of the nineteenth--the quintessential voice of [... more]
$29.95
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H.L. Mencken on Religion
A Jolt of Electricity: I've read numerous Mencken anthologies, and I think this one is the best. His commentaries on fundamentalist attacks on both evolution and the wall between church and state are as relevant now as they were when he wrote them in the [... more]
$32.98
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H.L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims-so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the ... [... more]
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