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H. L. Mencken

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Mencken: The American Iconoclast

Book by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Authors, American--20th Century--Biography, Editors--United States--Biography, Journalists--United States--Biography, Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in particular, in anticipation of Menckens arrival, many Harvard undergraduates...pointed to the bundle of magazines in Menckens hand. Will you sell me a copy...Chase offered him a fifty-cent piece, Menckens entire face lit up. To the delight...
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H. L. Mencken

Book by Ernest Boyd; Robert M. McBride, 1925

Subjects:

Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for the light it throws upon Mr. Menckens fundamental antagonism to metropolitan...Baltimore and, with one exception, Mr. Menckens writings for publication outside...intellectuals are so frequently addicted. Mr. Menckens conception of rustic simplicity, his...
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H.L. Mencken and the American Mercury Adventure

Book by M. K. Singleton; Duke University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956

Collections: Entire Library

...for a documented account of H. L. Menckens editorship of the American Mercury...the gratitude of all students of Menckens career for his collection of thousands...letters and transcripts made before Menckens death. This selection from a vast...
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H. L. Mencken, Critic of American Life

Book by George H. Douglas; Archon Books, 1978

Subjects:

Criticism--United States--History--20th Century, Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956--Political And Social Views, National Characteristics, American--Historiography, United States--Civilization--20th Century--Historiography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...221 Menckens Major Works / 238...First Series appears.First book of Menckens to be published by Alfred A. Knopf...Days, 1880-1892 , first book of Menckens reminiscences. 1941 Newspaper...
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The Irreverent Mr. Mencken

Book by Edgar Kemler; Little Brown, 1950

Subjects:

Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...uncontroversial details. Many of Mr. Menckens friends and associates have also...photographs and other details since Mr. Menckens illness, I am indebted to his brother...said, "all Baltimore will attend Menckens funeral." This, however, was not...

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Mencken: The American Iconoclast

Journal article by John T. Kneebone; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Mencken: The American Iconoclast (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...at the 1934 Gridiron Club dinner. Menckens reputation encompasses both the gleeful...riches to craft a detailed narrative of Menckens life. At the beginning she proposes...evenings at home. Books get written, and Menckens reputation rises, falls, and rises...
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Babylonian Frolics: H. L. Mencken and the American Language

Journal article by Raymond Nelson; American Literary History, Vol. 11, 1999

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...reflexive but not misplaced. Since 1919 Menckens study has provided us with our best...circumstances between 1917 and 1919. Menckens notorious Germanophilia made him...French scholar Guy Forgue, one of Menckens best observers, likened it to Ralph...
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A Triumph of Style

Journal article by Sam Munson; Policy Review, 2002

Subjects:

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken (Book)

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...prodigious figures in American letters. Menckens fierceness and his courage, his insistent...his subject and his subjects works. Menckens deep admiration for German militarism...brief personal account of the end of Menckens life, recording phrases that would...
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A Neglected Anniversary

Journal article by H.L. Mencken; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 58, 2001

Subjects:

Bathtubs--History, Impostors and imposture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...intended in the first place. Take, for example, H. L. Menckens "Bathtub Hoax," written as light relief in the dark days...Iconoclastic American journalist and critic Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the "Sage of Baltimore," is often remembered...
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Job Search and Sex Segregation: Does Sex of Social Contact Matter?

Journal article by F. Carson Mencken, Idee Winfield; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 2000

Subjects:

Employment discrimination--Surveys, Professional socialization--Sex differences, Social networks--Psychological aspects, Women--Employment

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Social Contact Matter? by F. Carson Mencken , Idee Winfield F. Carson Mencken 1 In this study, we investigate how the sex...1992; Rosenfeld, 1980, 1983; Singelmann Mencken, 1992; Wolf Fligstein 1979a, b; Tomaskovic-Devey...

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Mencken's Masterwork

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 24, Spring 2000

Subjects:

English language in the United States--History, Mencken, H.L.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The American Language (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Menckens Masterwork "Babylonian Frolics: H. L. Meneken and...expressions that Americas "yokelry" kept turning out. By Menckens account, Nelson says, the American vocabulary had begun...neologisms as joy-ride, high-brow, and sob-sister. In Menckens history of the development of American English, Nelson writes...
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The Next Mencken Controversy

Magazine article by Christopher Caldwell; National Review, Vol. 44, February 3, 1992

Subjects:

Mencken, H.L.--Bibliography, My Life (Book), Publishing industry, Yardley, Jonathan--Authorship

Collections: Entire Library

...on the 35th anniversary of H. L. Menckens death, the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore-under the terms of Menckens will-unsealed My Life as Author and...autobiographical reminiscences covering Menckens years in the magazine world, particularly...
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Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002

Subjects:

American writers, Journalists, Mencken, H.L.

Collections: Entire Library

...and other journalistic bigfeet of Menckens day. But he was a gifted practitioner...staying power that found their way into Menckens many books. The subjects of some of...that is the only fit comment on it. Menckens life was a show of its own, but until...
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The Sage of Baltimore: Reading the Prose of H. L. Mencken Is One of the Great Joys That Literacy Bestows on the Sentient

Magazine article by Jonathan Yardley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002

Subjects:

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...and other journalistic bigfeet of Menckens day. But he was a gifted practitioner...staying power that found their way into Menckens many books. The subjects of some of...that is the only fit comment on it. Menckens life was a show of its own, but until...
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H.L. Mencken on American Literature

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, June 2002

Subjects:

American literature, Mencken, H.L.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...This exuberant collection of H. L. Menckens reviews and short essays--most of...were essential to the essay, and Menckens pieces gathered here bear this out...tentatively, until the essays gel. Menckens views on the novel are so elegant...

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H.L. MENCKEN; Eyeing Vigor of 'Baltimore's Sage'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2002

Subjects:

Mencken, H. L.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wright describes borrowing one of Menckens books from the library and taking...testifies to the liberating force Menckens memorable diction and rhythms exerted...contains first-rate literary criticism of Menckens works, Mr. Teachout subordinates such...
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BALTIMORE'S BAD BOY; Recognizing Mencken's Remarkable Achievement

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 8, 2006

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BALTIMORES BAD BOY; Recognizing Menckens Remarkable Achievement. Byline...half a century. And oh, what a noise. Menckens formal - I use the word advisedly...devil-may care freedom . . . ." But Menckens vision soared beyond the narrow bounds...
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The Sovereign Hour; "Democracy Is the Theory That the Common People Know What They Want and Deserve to Get It Good and Hard." -- H.L. Mencken

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 12, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...What They Want and Deserve to Get It Good and Hard." -- H.L. Mencken. Byline: Adrian E. Cristobal GOD-willing, in five months...constitution, had some nasty things to say about democracy. H.L. Mencken also said that democracy is the art and science of running...
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Genius among Puritans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 16, 2004

Subjects:

Mencken, H.L.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...TIMES Where, oh, where are the H.L. Menckens of today? The lament is a common...certainly includes S.T. Joshi, who, with "Menckens America," has given Mencken aficionados...most of these essays are drawn from Menckens heyday, the 1920s, Mr. Joshi neglects...
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The Busy Yet Tragic Final Years of Teddy Roosevelt

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 8, 2005

Subjects:

Mencken, H.L., Roosevelt, Theodore

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...more than enough for most lifetimes, not to mention plenty for this near-biography. Patricia OToole may or may not share Menckens sentiments, but she has every reason to be thankful that her subject survived just about as long as he did - and probably...

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Mencken, H. L

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Jean Nathan ; together they founded the American Mercury in 1924, and Mencken was its sole editor from 1925 to 1933. Menckens pungent, iconoclastic criticism and scathing invective, although aimed at all smugly complacent attitudes, was chiefly...
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Nathan, George Jean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...GEORGE JEAN 1882 1958, American editor and drama critic, b. Fort Wayne, Ind. He left the New York Herald to join H. L. Mencken in editing Smart Set (1914 23), which they made into a guide for the young American intellectual. In 1924 they founded the...
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Sherman, Stuart Pratt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...section of the New York Herald Tribune. His conservative, chauvinistic views involved him in a lengthy quarrel with H. L. Mencken; in later years his beliefs became more liberal. Among his critical works are a biography of Matthew Arnold (1917), Americans...
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Boyd, Ernest

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and German authors. His works include Contemporary Drama of Ireland (1917), Portraits, Real and Imaginary (1924), H. L. Mencken (1925), Guy de Maupassant (1926), and Literary Blasphemies (1927). He was editor and translator of the complete works...
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...repr. 1973), I. Frenzel (1967), R. Hayman (1980, repr. 1999), L. Chamberlain (1996), and C. Cate (2005); studies by H. L. Mencken (1913, repr. 1993), R. Pfefler (1972), R. C. Solomon, ed. (1973), W. A. Kaufmann (4th ed. 1974), J. T. Wilcox (1974), J. P...

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