Professor H L Mencken

Prejudices Professor H L Mencken

Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink. Notoir Books is a publisher of new old books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit us at notoirbooks.com for more. Prejudices: Third series contains the following essays:
1. ON BEING AN AMERICAN
2. HUNEKER: A MEMORY
3. FOOTNOTE ON CRITICISM
4. DAS KAPITAL
5. AD IMAGINEM DEI CREAVIT ILLUM
The Life of Man
The Anthropomorphic Delusion
Meditation on Meditation.
Man and His Soul
Coda
6. STAR-SPANGLED MEN
7. THE POET AND HIS ART
8. FIVE MEN AT RANDOM
Abraham Lincoln
Paul Elmer More
Madison Cawein
Frank Harris
Havelock Ellis
9. THE NATURE OF LIBERTY
10. THE NOVEL
11. THE FORWARD-LOOKER
12. MEMORIAL SERVICE
13. EDUCATION
14. TYPES OF MEN
The Romantic
The Skeptic
The Believer
The Worker
The Physician
The Scientist
The Business Man
The King
The Average Man
The Truth-Seeker
The Pacifist
The Relative
The Friend
15. THE DISMAL SCIENCE
16. MATTERS OF STATE
Le Contrat Social
On Minorities
17. REFLECTIONS ON THE DRAMA
18. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN
To Him that Hath
The Venerable Examined
Duty
Martyrs
The Disabled Veteran
Patriotism
19. SUITE AMÉRICANE
Aspiration
Virtue
Eminence