A Mencken Chrestomathy

Edited and annotated by H.L.M. this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from booksthe six installments of the Prejudices series A Book of Burlesques In Defense of Women Notes on Democracy Making a President A Book of Calumny Treatise on Right and Wrongbut there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from theAmerican Mercury theSmart Setand theBaltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all.. Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of AmericansWoodrow Wilson Aimee Semple McPherson Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II James Gibbons Huneker Rudolph Valentino Calvin Coolidge Ring Lardner Theodore Dreiser and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven Schubert and Wagner and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad Thorstein Veblen Nietzsche and Madame Blavatsky.