A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own
Selection of His Choicest Writing by
H.L. Mencken
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Personal Review: A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection
of His Choicest Writing by H.L. Mencken
If anything needs deflating in this era of Obama, it is the American
Presidency in particular and politics in general. Lincoln was America's first
dictator A man who "knew" that he had to destroy freedom to save it from
its excesses. Mencken's pen is like Luke Skywalker's light saber in
eviscerating the likes of Lincoln, yet he devotes equal attention to the
sheepish masses who elect these swine. Some suggest was Mencken a
racist? Perhaps, however he used his influence to get black writers work
into leading publications at a time when no one else did.

Gibbons Burke on Mencken:
The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political
commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the
word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his
rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were
Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists,
"uplifters", social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the
insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham. But his life
was not defined by negativity. He was positively enthusiastic about to the
writings of Twain and Conrad, the music of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach,
and the victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay.
-- All in all, this work an outstanding example of iconoclastic criticism and
style.
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