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Book SynopsisH. 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 Evening Sun.Trade Review“This is the latest of Joshi’s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken’s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore’s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America’s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist.”
“In this collection … we get a sense of the issues that defined Mencken’s voice—freedom from censorship and battling against temperance and other moral reform movements among them—and the passion behind a man hellbent on ridding his community of, as he writes, ‘stupidity, flapdoodle, and buncombe.’” * Baltimore Magazine *
“This book fills a significant gap in the republication of Mencken’s newspaper work and criticism, and with Joshi’s judicious selection and substantial critical introduction, makes an important and useful contribution to Mencken scholarship.”
