A saturnalia of bunk : selections from the free lance, 1911/1915

A saturnalia of bunk : selections from the free lance, 1911/1915 /

"H. L. Mencken's reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Even...

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Main Author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (Author)
Other Authors: Joshi, S. T., 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017
Subjects:
Political satire, American.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • On being a free lance
  • The central questions of existence
  • The follies of American government and society
  • The Bozart
  • Men, women, and the vote
  • The bane of religion
  • The vice crusade 1: general notes
  • The vice crusade 2: Prohibition and other panaceas
  • The vice crusade 3: prostitution
  • Sundry forms of quackery
  • The Great War.

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