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A Choice of Days: Essays from Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days

Henry Louis Mencken - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 376 pages
Twenty chapters selected from three of the author's previous works: Happy days, Heathen days, and Newspaper days.
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AMERICAN SCENE: 1820-1900

Henry James - 1970 - 143 pages
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H.L. Mencken on Religion

H. L. Mencken - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 330 pages
No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). As a journalist, he gained national prominence ...
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H.L. Mencken on American Literature

Henry Louis Mencken - American literature - 2002 - 320 pages
Having edited several other volumes of American writer Mencken's (1880-1956) writings, Joshi here reprints his book reviews from their original appearance in the Smart Set ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Henry Louis Mencken - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 354 pages
The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American journalist and social critic. However ...
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In Defense of Women

Henry Louis Mencken - Literary Collections - 2003 - 132 pages
American author, critic, newspaper man, and iconoclast, H. L. Mencken maintained that women are smarter than men and cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill ...
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On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

Henry Louis Mencken - History - 1996 - 412 pages
"Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, and its salient virtuousi a gang of unmitigated ...
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