books by H. L. Mencken     books:     H. L. Mencken      The Vintage Mencken H.L. Mencken Vintage, 1990 A Great Joy When Paul Johnson called Mencken the "Shakespeare of American Journalism" he wasn't exagerrating. "Star-Spangled Men," for example, is one of the most brilliant and hilarious commentaries to ever be written, and it should be mandatory reading for college students. In ...             A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial H.L. Mencken Melville House, 2006 Brilliant...Classic Mencken I am a huge fan of H. L. Mencken and this addition to the library doesn't disappoint. Mencken was one of America's most respected, despised, and feared journalists. As the number one literary enemy of the fundamentalist most of his career, Mencken was in his element ...             H.L. Mencken on Religion H. L. Mencken Prometheus Books, 2002 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 1920s and 1930s. Moreover, as anyone ...             Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 An engaging look at a bygone era "This, after all, is MY story, and so I do not apologize for its pervasive subjectivity." So said Mencken in the preface, and good for him. While his usual verbal pyrotechnics give way to straight reporting here, you always know exactly where he stood. ...             The American Language H.L. Mencken Knopf, 1936 Word-Nerds come find your fodder. We all knew Mencken was a master of wit, but little did we know that his mastery of words could also be introspective to the language itself. As a linguistics major, I found this tome extremely interesting. If you want meticulous detail on the historyu and the ...             The Anti-Christ Friedrich Nietzsche FQ Classics, 2007 Who thought Nietzche wrote comedy? I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he ...             On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 Excellent! An anthology of Mencken's newspaper reports and analyses on politics between 1920 and 1936. Most of them, I think, do not appear in any of the other various Mencken anthologies. They are written in lucid and musical prose, full of refreshing honesty and vigor.             Minority Report (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 The Meat of Mencken This is a wonderful collection of pithy Mencken writings which you may often see quoted. If you have no intention of reading his full essays, read this. This was one of the best bathroom books I have ever had. It is funny, amusing, nihilistic, and condescendingly ...             A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing H.L. Mencken Vintage, 1982 The Baltimorean Belle-Lettrist... Most human beings can't write worth a damn. Mencken was an anomaly--a once-in-a-generation anomaly. This book represents over six-hundred pages of his best work, culled (by Mencken himself) from a fifty-year career in journalism. It is enjoyable and educational, and ...             Notes on Democracy H. L. Mencken Dissident Books, 2008 Mencken Vents His Spleen for His Era and Ours This is a wonderful book--packed with personality and a surprising amount of helpful supplementary material. For example, in her introductory essay to Notes on Democracy: A New Edition, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast) describes the ...             Damn! A Book of Calumny B&R Samizdat Express, 2008 A collection of satirical essays. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 ? 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and ...             In Defense of Women H. L. Mencken Arc Manor, 2008 As good as it gets This is not a book for faint of heart. No one was better at invective than Mencken, and his defense of women is far more of an attack on men than a defense of the "unfair" sex, as Ambrose Bierce signified our better half. Mencken's basic argument goes something like ...             Prejudices: A Selection (Buncombe Collection) H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 A Classic! I have recently finished "Prejudices," by H.L. Mencken. I knew little of the author, save that which I had gleaned by reading one of his other books ("A Discourse on the Gods," I think it was.) But, after coming away from the Satanic wag's essays, I am inclined to ...             H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism H.L. Mencken Gateway Editions, 2001 Not for the buncombe set... If not for Mencken's absurd racial theories (sadly common at that time)hovering in the background, this would get five stars. Conversely, there are many witty, incisive aspects to his criticism on display in Smart Set, which is also richly represented in the more ...             Treatise on the Gods (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) H. L. Mencken The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 Hard Headed Skeptic of the Theological Arts H. L. Mencken was a rare man indeed. He was a hard headed skeptic of the theological arts, but took an intense, scholarly interest in it, and it was a boon to the universe of thoughtful men when he decided to report back to them on what he found there. The book he ...          products you might be interested in search for books anti-christ, chrestomathy, collection, paperback, prejudices, thirty-five      toavi.com    web randomly chosen beauty: OPI I've Been Nice! Gift Set