Encyclopedia: H. L. Mencken
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880, Baltimore – January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life an...
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Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions:
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For further reading: The Man Mencken by Isaac Goldberg (1925); H.L. Mencken by Ernest Boyd (1925); The Irreverent Mr. Mencken by Edgar Kemler (1950); H.L. Mencken by Charles Angoff (1956); H.L. Mencken by William H. Nolte (1966);
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Promotes the reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the Sage of Baltimore, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast. S. T. Joshi’s H.L. Mencken An Annotated Bibliography is available from Scarecrow press. Copies will be sold during Der Tag.
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he remained associated with the Sun as editor, columnist, or contributor for most of his career, but he also wrote for many other publications. Early on, Mencken published studies of George Bernard Shaw (1905) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), both of whom he admired.
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148 quotes and quotations by H. L. Mencken Date of Birth: September 12, 1880; Date of Death: January 29, 1956; Nationality: American; Find on Amazon: H. L. Mencken; Related Authors: Napoleon Hill; Dale Carnegie; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Robert A. Heinlein; Denis Waitley; Rick Warren; Eric Hoffer; Anne Morrow Lindbergh;
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Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche".
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[43] The effort to educate the uneducable is hopeless. Schools for adults soon become kindergartens for adults. The pupils are quite unable to take in the education proper to their years. The gogues thus have to provide them with amusement, just as children of four are provided MENCKEN QUOTES ON OTHER SUBJECTS...
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