The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
Terry Teachout$16.14
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/04/2003
ISBN: 9780060505295
Pages: 410
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.33w x 1.13d
Review Citations: New York Times 01/25/2004 pg. 24