Mencken turns his artillery on the moral crusades of 1920s America, from the campaign against birth control to the hopeless enforcement of Prohibition. Here too are his famous dispatches on William Jennings Bryan and on the Tennessee hill country around the Scopes trial, alongside essays on Beethoven, on four makers of fiction, and on Protestantism in the Republic.
Mencken at the height of his powers: funny, savage and often unfair, and indispensable for the culture wars of the Jazz Age. Download the free EPUB.