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1. Biography - Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 32
Pages
(2007-01-01)
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2. Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken | |
Paperback: 330
Pages
(1996-06-19)
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Editorial Review Book Description Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing--from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines. Customer Reviews (1)
Mencken on his nonage |
3. A Mencken chrestomathy, edited and annotated by the author by H. L. (Henry Louis) (1880-1956) Mencken | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1949)
Asin: B000P1VESG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
4. The bathtub hoax, and other blasts & bravos from the Chicago tribune. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Robert McHugh by H. L. (Henry Louis) (1880-1956) Mencken | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1958)
Asin: B000WVU08E Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters : The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt by H. L. Mencken, Sara Haardt, Sara Haardt Mencken | |
Hardcover: 551
Pages
(1987-01)
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Customer Reviews (2)
The only love story I ever read cover-to-cover.
For Mencken Fans Only |
6. Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(1994-08-01)
list price: US$36.00 Isbn: 0801847915 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description "No greater prose stylist ever wrote for an American newspaper. It is always useful and enjoyable to be reminded of this, as Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work most certainly does... Should be required reading not merely for all newspaper people but for all those who labor in what we now call 'the media.'" -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World In January 1991 the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened the sealed manuscript of H. L. Mencken's "Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work." Written in 1941-42 and bequeathed to the library under time-lock upon Mencken's death in 1956, it is among the very last of his papers opened to the public. Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work, a one-volume edition of highlights from the manuscript, vividly pictures the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism. Here Mencken colorfully recalls his years--mostly with the Baltimore Evening Sun--as a reporter and a writer of editorials that always caused a stir among the public and riots of indignation among his enemies. The volume includes important new material on his coverage of presidential candidates from 1912 to 1940 and the 1925 trial of the man he called the "infidel Scopes." "The book reveals a man who loved food, alcohol, cigars, and good friends... Mencken had so many friends in high places that a few well-placed telephone calls invariably got him to the heart of the matter and revealed more information than any other reporter could solicit." -- Raymond L. Fischer, USA Today Customer Reviews (1)
An engaging look at a bygone era |
7. Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (Commonwealth Classics in Biography) by William Raymond Manchester | |
Paperback: 376
Pages
(1986-11)
list price: US$18.95 Isbn: 0870235443 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
The Lion of the Twenties still roaring |
8. A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by H. L. Mencken | |
Paperback: 206
Pages
(2006-09)
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Editorial Review Book Description Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and hit movie. Mencken's no-nonsense sensibility is still exciting: his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama; his piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; his ferocious take on the fundamentalist culture surrounding it all-including a raucous midnight trip into the woods to witness a secret "holy roller" service. Customer Reviews (4)
On the other hand....There's nothing about the trial
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee--Then, Today and Tomorrow
Inspirational!
Brilliant...Classic Mencken |
9. The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout | |
Hardcover: 432
Pages
(2002-11-01)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Mencken held to ideas that history was busily sweeping aside. He railed against the growing power of the federal government in the early years of the Roosevelt administration, insisting on an elitist brand of politics that favored the "superior man." He advocated an isolationist course in world affairs, even as totalitarian powers swallowed up whole nations; he agitated against progressive domestic causes; and, albeit ironically, he proposed that capital punishment be turned into a public entertainment. Yet he wrote some of the best, most cruelly entertaining journalism of his time, reporting on great trials, minor crimes, and political conventions, skewering received opinion. Mencken was "something more than a memorable stylist, if something less than a wise man," Teachout concludes. This careful portrait--the first full-length biography to appear in more than 30 years--gives ample evidence for that verdict. --Gregory McNamee When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mercken's energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful biography of this iconoclastic figure and the world he shaped. From his carefree days as a teenage cub reporter in turn-of-the-century Baltimore to his noisy tenure as founding editor of the American Mercury, the most influential magazine of the twenties, Mencken distinguished himself with a contrary spirit, a razor-sharp wit (he coined the term "Bible Belt"), and a keen eye for such up-and-coming authors as Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He covered everything, from the Scopes evolution trial to the 1948 presidential elections, in the pages of the Baltimore Sun. He wrote bestselling books about the failure of democracy, the foibles of the female sex, and what he memorably called "the American language." But his favorite topic was the one he saw wherever he looked: the sterile, life-denying strain of puritanism that he believed was strangling the culture of his native land. No modern writer has been more controversial than H. L. Mencken. His fans saw him as the fearless leader of the endless battle against ignorance and hypocrisy, while his enemies dismissed him as a cantankerous, self-righteous ideologue. The surging popularity of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the politician he hated most, eventually caused his star to fade, but the unsparing vigor of his critique of American life and letters -- and the raucously colloquial prose style in which he blasted the Babbitts -- retains its freshness and relevance to this day. Himself an accomplished critic and journalist, Terry Teachout has combed through reams of Mencken's private papers, including the searingly candid autobiographical manuscripts sealed after his death in 1956. Out of this material he has fashioned a portrait of the artist as intellectual gadfly, working newspaperman, devoted husband, and faithless ]over. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and completely absorbing, The Skeptic vividly evokes the life and legacy of a true American legend. Customer Reviews (27)
4 STARS
A Great Book about a Complex Personage
The Life of H. L. Mencken.
enjoyable but flawed
Superb biography |
10. Diary 0f H.l. Mencken, The by H.L. Mencken | |
Hardcover: 476
Pages
(1989-12-03)
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An Immense Disappointment |
11. H L Mencken On American Literature by H. L. Mencken | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2002-07-15)
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Good critical writing that never goes out of style |
12. Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(1996-06-19)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com In six volumes of Prejudices published between 1919 and 1927, H. L. Mencken collected some of the best essays he ever wrote and established the style that made him a titan of the free press. Thirty years later, James T. Farrell, Mencken's friend and the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, read again through the Prejudices and found them still relevant and stimulating. From the six original volumes, he selected thirty-five essays--each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse. Here is Mencken at his hyperbolic best--from his thundering blows against politics, through his piercing deflations of pious reputations, to his tireless fusillades against the American plutocracy. He tallies the dubious merits of farmers, professors, economists, congressmen, and preachers. He calculates the displeasures of living in California--and the advantages of living in America: "Here the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head." "It should be clear to the reader that the preparation of this volume was to me a joy, a labor of love, and a privilege. These selections... represent Mencken when he was at the peak of his influence and had, in fact, become a legend. Here is some of his wittiest and most buoyant writing. Something of his wide range of interests and his broad field of reference is to be found in these essays. Many of them are unforgettable. Here in my opinion, is some of the very best of H. L. Mencken."--James T. Farrell, in the Introduction Customer Reviews (4)
INFERIOR COLLECTION OF OBSCURE, DATED WRITING
Best Of Mencken
If it weren't for Mencken, I'd go nuts
A Classic! |
13. In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom & H.L. Mencken by H. L. Mencken, Marion Bloom | |
Hardcover: 397
Pages
(1996-06)
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14. From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling by H. L. Mencken, George Sterling | |
Hardcover: 284
Pages
(2001-03)
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15. Letters of H. L. Mencken by H. L. Mencken | |
Hardcover:
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(1981-07)
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16. Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South by Fred C. Hobson | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(1995-06)
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17. Ich Kuss Die Hand: The Letters of H.L. Mencken to Gretchen Hood by H. L. Mencken | |
Hardcover: 303
Pages
(1987-01)
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18. H.L. Mencken (Literature and Life) by Vincent Fitzpatrick | |
Hardcover: 153
Pages
(1989-04)
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He Told The Truth, Harshly! |
19. A Choice of Days by H.L. Mencken | |
Hardcover: 337
Pages
(1980-08-12)
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20. Minority Report (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1997-06-25)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com "The most expensive thing on this earth is to believe in something that is palpably not true." "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." "Metaphysics is a refuge for men who have a strong desire to appear learned and profound but have nothing worth hearing to say." "Out of the past it comes, and as vibrant, penetrating, and provocative as I have ever heard it -- the voice of H. L. Mencken, proclaiming his shrewd truths and magnificent prejudices with a pungent clarity possessed by no other critic of our times." -- Edward Weeks, Atlantic "This is Mencken, all right, authentic and inimitable. Some of it is Vintage Mencken, with the bouquet and body that delighted connoisseurs for thirty years; some of it is Outrageous Mencken, dispensing soda-pop and, tongue in cheek, gravely assuring the brainless that it is the true, the blushing Hippocrene; but all of it is the One and Only Mencken, flashing, sparkling and as stimulating to swift endeavor as the sting of a wasp." -- New York Herald Tribune In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes of memoirs, and a steady stream of journalism that made him loved and hated, sometimes by the same person. For Minority Report, he read through his notebooks, extracting those pieces he thought most true, most pertinent, most precise, or most likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain. "He is a delight to read -- a little at a time, which one must do in order to fully enjoy the old master's sledgehammer effect." -- San Francisco Chronicle Customer Reviews (4)
Revisiting an old friend
Excellent HLM, Just A Bit Mean Here & There!
The Meat of Mencken
A fix for all those addicted to contemplation. |
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