Mencken’s second gathering of combative essays opens with a long attack on the state of American letters and the ashes of New England culture. It goes on to Roosevelt: an Autopsy, the notorious assault on the South’s cultural life in The Sahara of the Bozart, pieces on music and opera, and a mocking look at Prohibition in The Dry Millennium.
Mencken at his most quotable and most provoking, a landmark of American criticism between the wars. Download the free EPUB.