[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)

[LoneGreenEyeshade]

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).

I think I'm going to pick up A Mencken Chrestomathy and reread now that I am on the right....be interesting to see if my understanding and perspective on his writing has changed. I sure have!!!! Thanks.

[Scholastic]

BUMP!