Mencken opens by explaining, at length and with relish, why he stays in a country whose government he calls ignorant, incompetent and corrupt: it is the best show on earth. The essays that follow remember the critic James Huneker, take on criticism, Marx, religion and the anthropomorphic delusion, and throw in judgments on Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Mencken at full voice, quotable on every page and still provoking arguments a century later. Download the free EPUB.