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  1. Sep 8, 2024 · H.L. Mencken was a controversial journalist and pungent critic of American life who powerfully influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s. He jeered at American sham, pretension, provincialism, and prudery, and he ridiculed the nation’s organized religion, business, and middle class (or ‘booboisie’).

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  2. 2 days ago · The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, [5] chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries. [nb 1] Cato was established to focus on public advocacy, media exposure, and societal influence. [6]

  3. Aug 30, 2024 · Critics have long considered H. L. Mencken to be impossible, meaning stubborn, difficult, exasperating. But today the appellation takes on a different meaning: His career and ideas simply would be impossible today. Read Full Article ».

  4. Sep 12, 2024 · I read Terry Teachout’s excellent biography (The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken), which helped contextualize him. He was one of THE authors of the “Jazz Age,” which is really interesting when you look at how he lived his life, in the most non-Jazz-Age-y way as possible.

  5. Sep 8, 2024 · “X-ray portrait of H.L. Mencken, 1921, by Dr. Max Kahn, an early radiologist.,” KU Libraries Exhibits, accessed September 8, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/items/show/8076.

  6. Sep 3, 2024 · The young iconoclasts were H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, two writers possessing no small ambition of their own but with little else in common save for their mutual contempt for mediocrity and pretentiousness, literary or otherwise.

  7. Aug 29, 2024 · Satirist, Columnist, Novelist, and all around Crack-Pot from the late 19th Century to roughly the middle of the 20th Century. In his time he was an extremely influential columnist that was printed all around the United States spanning a period of nearly 40 years.

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