Authors: H. L. Mencken
ISBN-13: 9780801885358, ISBN-10: 0801885353
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.
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.
These thirty-five essays each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.
Introduction | ||
1 | Criticism of Criticism of Criticism | 3 |
2 | George Ade | 11 |
3 | The Genealogy of Etiquette | 17 |
4 | The Ulster Polonius | 27 |
5 | George Jean Nathan | 34 |
6 | Three American Immortals | 44 |
7 | Roosevelt: An Autopsy | 47 |
8 | The Sahara of the Bozart | 69 |
9 | The Cerebral Mime (from The Allied Arts) | 82 |
10 | The Cult of Hope | 84 |
11 | On Being an American | 89 |
12 | Huneker: A Memory | 126 |
13 | The Nature of Liberty | 138 |
14 | Memorial Service | 143 |
15 | The King (from Types of Men) | 147 |
16 | The Dismal Science | 148 |
17 | Patriotism (from Advice to Young Men) | 155 |
18 | Virtue (from Suite Americaine) | 156 |
19 | The Husbandman | 157 |
20 | The Politician | 169 |
21 | On Government | 177 |
22 | The Capital of a Great Republic (from People and Things) | 189 |
23 | Bilder Aus Schoner Zeit (from People and Things) | 190 |
24 | Conrad (from Four Makers of Tales) | 191 |
25 | Lardner (from Four Makers of Tales) | 197 |
26 | Heretics (from The Files of a Book Reviewer) | 201 |
27 | On Living in Baltimore | 206 |
28 | The Champion (from Miscellaneous Notes) | 210 |
29 | Definition (from Miscellaneous Notes) | 213 |
30 | Journalism in America | 213 |
31 | On Controversy (from The Human Mind) | 233 |
32 | The Emperor of Wowsers (from Souvenirs of a Book Reviewer) | 237 |
33 | Hymn to the Truth | 242 |
34 | Chiropractic (from Dives into Quackery) | 247 |
35 | The Executive Secretary | 254 |