Mencken’s fourth gathering of essays aims his scorn at the guardians of the American tradition in letters, the sentimentalised farmer, democratic justice, politicians, Prohibition-era piety and the Methodist hinterland. Between the broadsides come reflections on human monogamy, notes from a critic’s notebook and a dance of death on New York.
Mencken at full strength, as funny as he is contemptuous, and with the blind spots of his time. Download the free EPUB.