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Prejudices, fourth, fifth, and sixth series, H. L. Mencken

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-596) and index

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Prejudices

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H. L. Mencken

The Library of America, 207

fourth, fifth, and sixth series

H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. In this volume and a companion, The Library of America presents all six series of Prejudices (1919-1927), the iconoclastic collections that helped blast American literature out of its complacency and into a new age of frankness and maturity. The fantastic linguistic inventiveness, full-bodied humor, and unwaveringly fierce courage of his journalism made him a liberating force for his contemporaries and a figure who remains unique in American writing. --from publisher's description

Fourth series. The American tradition -- The husbandman -- High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks -- Justice under democracy -- Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning -- The politician -- From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments -- Totentanz -- Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world -- Essay in constructive criticism -- On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor -- Bugaboo -- On government -- Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist -- Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal -- The American novel -- People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of MnemosyneFifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War -- Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters -- In memoriam : W.J.B. -- The hills of Zion -- Beethoven -- Rondo on an ancient theme -- Protestantism in the Republic -- From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff -- The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village -- Essay in pedagogy -- On living in Baltimore -- The last New Englander -- The nation -- Officers and gentlemen -- Golden age -- Edgar Saltus -- Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition -- CatechismSixth series. Journalism in America -- From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach! -- The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith -- Clarion call to poets -- Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English -- Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly -- Hymn to the truth -- The pedagogy of sex -- Metropolis -- Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics -- Life under bureaucracy -- In the rolling mills -- Ambrose Bierce -- The executive secretary -- Invitation to the dance -- Aubade -- Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino

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