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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken

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Availability:In StockContributor:Terry TeachoutPublish date:2021-02-08Pages:410
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060505295ISBN-10:006050529XUPC:9780060505295Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Historical, PoliticalSize:8.02 x 5.33 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNJPJRBS6

When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mencken's energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful biography of this iconoclastic figure and the world he shaped.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060505295ISBN-10:006050529XUPC:9780060505295Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Historical, PoliticalSize:8.02 x 5.33 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNJPJRBS6
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Terry Teachout writes about literature and the arts for the New York Times, Time, National Review, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Commentary. His books include A Second Mencken Chrestomaby, a manuscript he rediscovered among Mencken's private papers. He lives in New York City.

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