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The Skeptic
The Life of H.L. Mencken
by Terry Teachout
ISBN: 006050529X
ISBN-13: 9780060505295
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This life of Mencken, the first major effort in 20 years, covers not only his prolific and influential career as a journalist, but his anti-Semitism and his initial failure to condemn the Nazis. Mencken is viewed as an important muckraker and intellectual-a driving force in the world of American thought and letters. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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"A balanced portrait...."
-- Kirkus
"As this century gets under way, it appears to me suddenly to leave the figure of Mencken decidedly shrunken and localized: a fate of which Terry Teachout seems queasily aware without being fully conscious of it." -- Christopher Hitchens
-- New York Times Book Review
"With THE SKEPTIC, Mencken at last gets his due. Terry Teachout...tells the story with brio....Teachout has read Mencken's enormous oeuvre with obvious care and delight, and also with a clinical dispassion that permits him to discuss this work with candor and discrimination. The same can be said of his treatment of Mencken the man, which is friendly and sympathetic but also...honest and, when appropriate, unsparing." -- Jonathan Yardley
-- Atlantic Monthly
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.82 pounds
Pages: 410
Publisher's Notes
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.
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