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Prejudices: A Selection (Buncombe Collection)
Prejudices A Selection - Buncombe Collection Author:H. L. Mencken With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen ... more »Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.These thirty-five essays -- each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse -- have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.« less