In 1914, on the eve of the war that would end it all, three young American critics went out after dark in the great cities of Europe and reported back. Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris and London are each sized up by their cafés, beer gardens, cabarets and theatres, with a mock-Socratic preface staged on a hilltop above Innsbruck.
Early, sharp-tongued Mencken in company with the future S. S. Van Dine, decorated by a young Thomas Hart Benton. Download the free EPUB.