[LoneGreenEyeshade]

Thanks for this thread---used to read Mencken a gazillion years ago....gee the guy had foresight!!!!!

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I watch a lot of C-Span 2 book-tv on the weekends. They had some guy today doing a talk as Mencken. When he stated this preamble, I went immediately to the search button. Good stuff.

[BluesDuke]

Thanks for this thread---used to read Mencken a gazillion years ago....gee the guy had foresight!!!!!

I still read him at least once a week, if not more frequently. Today, alas, he'd be considered anything from a far right wingnut (by the left) to a venal lunatic and unrealistic obstructionist bent on throwing it all to the left by default (by today's alleged right).

Mencken In Print:

A Mencken Chrestomathy (Vintage Books)
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Vintage Books)
Smart Set Criticism (Johns Hopkins)
Prejudices: A Selection (Johns Hopkins)
Vintage Mencken (Vintage Books)
The Impossible H.L. Mencken (McGraw-Hill)
A Choice of Days (Vintage or Johns Hopkins)