The skeptic : a life of H.L. Mencken / Terry Teachout.
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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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t "I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899 -- |g 2. "A |t sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906 -- |g 3. |t "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914 -- |g 4. "The |t Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918 -- |g 5. |t "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923 -- |g 6. |t "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928 -- |g 7. |t "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935 -- |g 8. |t "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941 -- |g 9. |t "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948 -- |g 10. |t "Until thought and memory adjourn" : scourge at bay, 1948-1956. |
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