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Sep 12, 2018 · Today (September 12th) is H.L. Mencken’s birthday. The “Sage of Baltimore” was born in 1880 and is regarded by many as one of the most influential American journalists, essayists, and writers of the early 20th century. To recognize the great political writer on his birthday, here are 12 of my favorite Mencken quotes.
Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956) ("H. L."). American author, editor, and journalist. Born in Baltimore, MD, into a German immigrant family, Henry Louis Mencken worked in his father’s cigar factory for two years after graduating high school.
Journalist, Critic, Author and Essayist. His insightful and humorous skepticism about American life and letters, expressed with penetrating style, made him one of the most influential critics of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he seemed destined ('doomed', in his words) to join the family tobacco and...
Subscriptions were cancelled, threats made on him and Sunpapers’ staff, and advertisers’ products were boycotted, but Mencken's words were published.
H.L. Mencken. Henry Louis ( H. L.) Mencken, född 12 september 1880 i Baltimore i Maryland, död 29 januari 1956 i Baltimore, var en amerikansk kritiker och lingvist. Han väckte uppseende genom sina angrepp på traditioner och accepterade normer. Angreppen, som var riktade såväl mot sociala planerare, feminister och rasjämlikhetsförkämpar ...
Nov 19, 2016 · Mencken is known as the chief heretic of the American civic religion, and this book shows why. Your eyes will pop out at not only his dazzling prose but, and most especially, at the thoughts that he dares put in print, almost as a revolutionary act.
Sep 25, 2014 · Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken’s archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration.
