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The skeptic : a life of H.L. Mencken

Author: Terry Teachout
Publisher: New York : Perennial, 2003. ©2002
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : English : First Perennial editionView all editions and formats
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A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians.
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Biography
Named Person: H L Mencken; H L Mencken; Henry L Mencken
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Terry Teachout
ISBN: 006050529X 9780060505295 0060505281 9780060505288
OCLC Number: 54531226
Description: xvii, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: 1. "I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899 --
2. "A sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906 --
3. "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914 --
4. "The Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918 --
5. "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923 --
6. "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928 --
7. "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935 --
8. "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941 --
9. "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948 --
10. "Until thought and memory adjourn" : scourge at bay, 1948-1956.
Responsibility: Terry Teachout.
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A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians.

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