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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry Louis Mencken, H. L. Mencken

Wilder Publications, 2008

Nietzsche left no systematic exposition of his philosophy, and so it remains the subject of intense scholarly dispute and interpretation. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and often outrageous claims, his philosophy generates strong reactions of passionate love and disgust. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken was the first, and many believe the best book on the subject. Mencken was known for his attention to ...

A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

4 reviews
H.L. Mencken

Melville House, 2006

Brilliant...Classic Mencken
I am a huge fan of H. L. Mencken and this addition to the library doesn't disappoint. Mencken was one of America's most respected, despised, and feared journalists. As the number one literary enemy of the fundamentalist most of his career, Mencken was in his element at the John Scopes trial that pitted the science of evolution against the mythology of fundamentalist Christianity. In 1925, ...

H.L. Mencken on Religion

8 reviews
H. L. Mencken

Prometheus Books, 2002

A Jolt of Electricity
I've read numerous Mencken anthologies, and I think this one is the best. His commentaries on fundamentalist attacks on both evolution and the wall between church and state are as relevant now as they were when he wrote them in the 1920s and 1930s. Moreover, as anyone who's ever read Mencken can attest, the man was a brilliant stylist and frequently hysterically funny. Oh, how the man could ...

The LIBERTARIAN READER: Classic & Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman

11 reviews
Thomas Paine, James Madison, ...

Free Press, 1997

A Valuable Addition to Any Political Science Library
If you are looking for a quick introduction to the principles and practices of the Libertarian Party, avoid this book; a good search engine and some basic research skills are all you need. If instead you're searching for a deeper understanding of the philosophy of liberty, then I can suggest no better starting point. The book itself is a collection of short essays from a wide range of ...

The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

1 review
H.L. Mencken

Knopf, 1977

Entertaining and edifying!!
Mencken provides a look at our impossible language with great flair, erudition, and with a liberal dollop of humor. Here is a spendid book that you can read systematically cover-to-cover or pick up and read in bits and pieces. It covers the development of our language both topically and historically. This volume is absolutely indispensible for both the amateur logophile and the scholar ...

In Defense of Women

6 reviews

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

As good as it gets
This is not a book for faint of heart. No one was better at invective than Mencken, and his defense of women is far more of an attack on men than a defense of the "unfair" sex, as Ambrose Bierce signified our better half. Mencken's basic argument goes something like this: women are pretty bad; men are worse; therefore, women are better than men. This is, to be sure, a gross ...

The Anti-Christ

48 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wilder Publications, 2008

Who thought Nietzche wrote comedy?
I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he belittles their faith in what he would refer to as a weak and underwhelming God painted in our own image... I look forward to ...

A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing

23 reviews
H.L. Mencken

Vintage, 1982

The Baltimorean Belle-Lettrist...
Most human beings can't write worth a damn. Mencken was an anomaly--a once-in-a-generation anomaly. This book represents over six-hundred pages of his best work, culled (by Mencken himself) from a fifty-year career in journalism. It is enjoyable and educational, and you can't ask for much more than that. Of course, Mencken allows his fulsome personality free rein, and hypersensitive, humorless, ...

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken

Alfred A. Knopf, 1921

Revised and Enlarged Edition.

Notes on Democracy

3 reviews
H. L. Mencken

Dissident Books, 2008

Mencken Vents His Spleen for His Era and Ours
This is a wonderful book--packed with personality and a surprising amount of helpful supplementary material. For example, in her introductory essay to Notes on Democracy: A New Edition, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast) describes the effect of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) on first-time readers: "[Mencken is] . . . still castigated as un-American, ...

The Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)

7 reviews
H. L. Mencken

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006

The Social Darwinist Nietzsche.
_The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche_, first published in 1908, by Baltimore newspaperman H. L. Mencken was the first complete exposition of Nietzsche's thought written in English and presents a version of Nietzsche that may be unfamiliar to his latter-day interpreters. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) was an iconoclastic newspaperman who made a name for himself through his brash style and ...

Minority Report:

4 reviews
H. L. Mencken

Alfred A. Knopf, 1956

The Meat of Mencken
This is a wonderful collection of pithy Mencken writings which you may often see quoted. If you have no intention of reading his full essays, read this. This was one of the best bathroom books I have ever had. It is funny, amusing, nihilistic, and condescendingly brutal (or is it brutally condescending?). Mencken writes with the authority of a god, but one with a strong sense of humor and an ...

Mencken's America
H. L. Mencken

Ohio University Press, 2004

Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.

Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

1 review
H. L. Mencken

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

An engaging look at a bygone era
"This, after all, is MY story, and so I do not apologize for its pervasive subjectivity." So said Mencken in the preface, and good for him. While his usual verbal pyrotechnics give way to straight reporting here, you always know exactly where he stood. The book's focus is Mencken's association with the Baltimore Sunpapers. His Free Lance column established his iconoclastic ...

Damn! A Book of Calumny

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

A collection of satirical essays. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 ? 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for ...

Treatise on the Gods (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

9 reviews
H. L. Mencken

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Hard Headed Skeptic of the Theological Arts
H. L. Mencken was a rare man indeed. He was a hard headed skeptic of the theological arts, but took an intense, scholarly interest in it, and it was a boon to the universe of thoughtful men when he decided to report back to them on what he found there. The book he wrote will stand for a long while as the best of its kind--at once dispassionate and informative, with more than a little of his ...

Prejudices: A Selection

4 reviews
H. L. Mencken

Vintage, 1958

A Classic!
I have recently finished "Prejudices," by H.L. Mencken. I knew little of the author, save that which I had gleaned by reading one of his other books ("A Discourse on the Gods," I think it was.) But, after coming away from the Satanic wag's essays, I am inclined to accord him a place in the pantheon right next to Nietzsche, Mark Twain and Socrates. An evil, little man! Acerbic, brilliant, ...

The American Language

2 reviews
H.L. Mencken

Knopf, 1984

Word-Nerds come find your fodder.
We all knew Mencken was a master of wit, but little did we know that his mastery of words could also be introspective to the language itself. As a linguistics major, I found this tome extremely interesting. If you want meticulous detail on the historyu and the divergence from the British English, snap this book up. If you're still not satisfied, hunt around for the appedices he wrote later ...

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