A saturnalia of bunk selections from The free lance, 1911/1915

"H. L. Mencken's reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Even...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mencken, H. L. 1880-1956 (-)
Otros Autores: Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press [2017]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37686860*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • On being a free lance
  • The central questions of existence
  • The follies of American government and society
  • The Bozart
  • Men, women, and the vote
  • The bane of religion
  • The vice crusade 1: general notes
  • The vice crusade 2: Prohibition and other panaceas
  • The vice crusade 3: prostitution
  • Sundry forms of quackery
  • The Great War.