A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken
stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless
iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist,
a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy.
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of
Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of
American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the
private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at
the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating
friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan.
Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of
turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed
thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of
the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies,
Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a
prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press
censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The
champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also
played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The
Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such
writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston
Hughes.
Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private
collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen,
on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love
letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of
America's most colorful and influential men.
"This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is
exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than
moderate intelligence and an awfully good time."
--Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
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