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The Skeptic : A Life of H. L. Mencken
The Skeptic A Life of H L Mencken
Author: Terry Teachout
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060505295
ISBN-10: 006050529X
Publication Date: 11/1/2003
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Comprehensive and well-written biography of H.L. Mencken.


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