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Mencken: The American Iconoclast

The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore

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I just picked up the latest biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Elizebeth Rodgers.

I will be reading it over the weekend and will review it here perhaps by Sunday.

Watch for the segment on C-SPAN about it.

Perhaps he was no racist or anti-Semite after all.

In fact, perhaps we have him to thank for ending prohibition (hence the photo on the book jacket cover).

He certainly stood up for liberty and the separation of church and state.

Perhaps he is best remembered today for his acerbic coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925.

Posted by Glynn Wilson on December 2, 2005 04:30 PM |

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