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Mencken : the American iconoclast / Marion Elizabeth Rodgers.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3525.E43 Z79 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
- Mencken, H. L.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Editors--United States--Biography.
- Editors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 662 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Drawing on research in more than 60 archives (including previously unseen private collections in the U.S. and in Germany), exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends and his love letters, this is a meticulous portrait of one of the most original and complicated men in American letters. Photos.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Boston, 1926 1
- Part 1 1880-1914 11
- 1 The Citizen of Baltimore 13
- 2 The Eternal Boy 32
- 3 August Mencken & Bro. 41
- 4 Baltimore and Beyond 54
- 5 Terse and Terrible Texts 62
- 6 Plays and Players 70
- 7 The Great Baltimore Fire 80
- 8 A Man of Ability 94
- 9 A Young Man in a Hurry 102
- 10 Broadening Horizons 113
- 11 The Bad Boy of Baltimore 121
- 12 Outside, Looking In 131
- Part 2 1914-1919 139
- 13 The Holy Terror 141
- 14 Mencken, Nathan, and God 145
- 15 Round One! 152
- 16 Berlin, 1917 162
- 17 The Prevailing Winds 175
- 18 Over Here 190
- 19 The Infernal Feminine 200
- Part 3 1920-1930 209
- 20 The Dry Millenium Dawns 211
- 21 Of Politics and Prose 221
- 22 That Man in Baltimore 229
- 23 The Duel of Sex 241
- 24 Old Discord and New Alliances 256
- 25 The Scopes Trial 271
- 26 In the Crucible 295
- 27 Banned in Boston 300
- 28 The Great God Mencken 306
- 29 A Sentimental Journey 316
- 30 The German Valentino 325
- 31 The Sea of Matrimony 340
- 32 Variations on a Familiar Theme 351
- Part 4 1930-1935 357
- 33 The Tamed Ogre of Cathedral Street 359
- 34 Hard Times 371
- 35 "Happy Days Are Here Again" 379
- 36 Maryland, My Maryland 387
- 37 The Tune Changes 393
- 38 The Late Mr. Mencken 399
- 39 A Time to Be Wary 406
- 40 A Winter of Horror 414
- Part 5 1936-1940 425
- 41 Baltimore's Friendly Dragon 427
- 42 Mencken as Boss 437
- 43 Berlin, 1938 448
- 44 Polemics and Prejudices 456
- 45 Triumph of Democracy 464
- Part 6 1941-1948 471
- 46 The Weapon of Silence 473
- 47 On the Home Front 479
- 48 Mencken and the Guild 486
- 49 Friends and Relatives 493
- 50 The Man Who Hates Everything 505
- 51 The Great Upset of 1948 516
- Part 7 1949-1956 529
- 52 The Last Days 531
- Epilogue: The Passing of an Era 547.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [559]-646) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195072383
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