In Defense of Women (Esprios Classics)

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12 1880 - January 29 1956) was an American journalist essayist satirist cultural critic and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene literature music prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial which he dubbed the Monkey Trial also gained him attention. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche he was an outspoken opponent of organized religion theism populism and representative democracy the last of which he viewed as a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors.