Prejudices

by Mencken, H. L.; Farrell, James T. (CRT)

• ISBN13: 9780801885358
• ISBN10: 0801885353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION BY JAMES T. FARRELL	ix
FROM Prejudices: First Series
1. CRITICISM OP CRITICISM OF CRITICISM	3	(8)
2. GEORGE ADE	11	(6)
3. THE GENEALOGY OF ETIQUETTE	17	(10)
4. THE ULSTER POLONIUS	27	(7)
5. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN	34	(10)
6. THREE AMERICAN IMMORTALS	44	(3)
FROM Prejudices: Second Series
7. ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOPSY	47	(22)
8. THE SAHARA OF THE BOZART	69	(13)
9. THE CEREBRAL MIME (FROM The Allied Arts)	82	(2)
10. THE CULT OF HOPE	84	(5)
FROM Prejudices: Third Series
11. ON BEING AN AMERICAN	89	(37)
12. HUNEKER: A MEMORY	126	(12)
13. THE NATURE OF LIBERTY	138	(5)
14. MEMORIAL SERVICE	143	(4)
15. THE KING (FROM Types of Men)	147	(1)
16. THE DISMAL SCIENCE	148	(7)
17. PATRIOTISM (FROM Advice to Young Men)	155	(1)
18. VIRTUE (FROM Suite Américaine)	156	(1)
FROM Prejudices: Fourth Series
19. THE HUSBANDMAN	157	(12)
20. THE POLITICIAN	169	(8)
21. ON GOVERNMENT	177	(12)
22. THE CAPITAL OP A GREAT REPUBLIC (FROM People and Things)	189	(1)
23. BILDER AUS SCHÖNER ZEIT (FROM People and Things)	190	(1)
FROM Prejudices: Fifth Series
24. CONRAD (FROM Four Makers of Tales)	191	(6)
25. LARDNER (FROM Four Makers of Tales)	197	(4)
26. HERETICS (FROM The Files of a Book Reviewer)	201	(5)
27. ON LIVING IN BALTIMORE	206	(4)
28. THE CHAMPION (FROM Miscellaneous Notes)	210	(3)
29. DEFINITION (FROM Miscellaneous Notes)	213	(1)
FROM Prejudices: Sixth Series
30. JOURNALISM IN AMERICA	213	(20)
31. ON CONTROVERSY (FROM The Human Mind)	233	(4)
32. THE EMPEROR OF WOWSERS (FROM Souvenirs of a Book Reviewer)	237	(5)
33. HYMN TO THE TRUTH	242	(5)
34. CHIROPRACTIC (FROM Dives into Quackery)	247	(7)
35. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY	254