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Synopsis
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was an outsized figure who continues to cast a long shadow on American writing and social thought--and the man who defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." This biography of the curmudgeonly journalist and pundit balances his many virtues--intellectual brilliance, humor, open-mindedness--with his faults, which included anti-Semitism and an unwillingness to condemn the Nazis.
| Size | | Length: | 662 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 37.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "On the morning of April 5, 1926, a multitude of Harvard and Boston University undergraduates, reporters, and the curious gathered at Brimstone Corner in Cambridge. Students, many of them clutching magazines, awaited the Baltimore journalist and editor H.L. Mencken. Boston newspapers had already announced his impending fate. One headline blared, FAMOUS EDITOR DEFIES POLICE: WANTS TO MAKE TEST CASE IN COURTS. Another said, MENCKEN, READY FOR JAIL, SELLING MAGAZINES HERE."
Industry Reviews
"[A} meticulous portrait of one of the most original and complicated men in American letters."
Publishers Weekly (06/20/2005)
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