A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit

by H. L. Mencken

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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. Discovered among his private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this collection is full of the iconoclastic common sense that marked Mencken's astonishing career as the premier American social critic of the twentieth century. This chrestomathy ("a collection of literary passages") incorporates writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and the brethren of the cloth.
  • ISBN10 0801885493
  • ISBN13 9780801885495
  • Publish Date 28 December 2006 (first published 17 January 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press