The Skeptic A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout HarperCollins, 432 pp., $29.95 IN THE FALL OF 1923, James M. Cain, a reporter then aspiring to a literary career, had lunch in Baltimore with H.L.
H.L. Mencken, America’s greatest journalist, has been a boon to biographers. It would be possible, in fact, to teach a course titled “Mencken Biography,” beginning with Carl Bode’s scholarly “Mencken” ...
THIS MONTH MARKS THE 50TH anniversary of H.L. Mencken’s passing. Recently described by the New York Times as “the premier social critic of the first half of the 20th century,” Mencken poured out more ...
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Much to the chagrin of many of the show’s characters, far-right Republican candidate Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk) was elected president on the latest episode of “Succession,” a political ascent that ...
H. L MENCKEN: A PORTRAIT FROM MEMORY (240 pp.)—Charles Angoff—Thomas Yoseloff ($3.95). During Prohibition, the red-letter days at the American Mercury were the ones on which the bootlegger’s man in ...
BY JOHN GOODSPEED Book Critic Nov 18, 2005 Nov 18, 2005 0 GoodspeedAnother fine H.L. Mencken biography GoodspeedAnother fine H.L. Mencken biography GoodspeedAnother fine H.L. Mencken biography ...
As a stampede of weasels seeks to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most underrated critic of bellicose folly. H.L. Mencken is famous for his smackdowns of ...
Written with an élan worthy of its subject and with irreverent wit, this is a very entertaining but far from definitive biogruphy of Mencken. Mr. Manchester, a young newspaperman, managed to enlist ...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 8 of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. It’s Roman Roy’s world, and we’re all just living in it. Sunday’s ...
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