Prejudices

Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink. Notoir Books is a publisher of new old books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit us at notoirbooks.com for more. Prejudices: Second series contains the following essays:
1. THE NATIONAL LETTERS
Prophets and Their Visions
The Answering Fact
The Ashes of New England
The Ferment Underground
In the Literary Abattoir
Underlying Causes
The Lonesome Artist
The Cultural Background
Under the Campus Pump
The Intolerable Burden
Epilogue
2. ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOPSY
3. THE SAHARA OF THE BOZART
4. THE DIVINE AFFLATUS
5. SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF A POPULAR VIRTUE
6. EXEUNT OMNES
7. THE ALLIED ARTS
On Music-Lovers
Opera
The Music of Tomorrow
Tempo di Valse
The Puritan as Artist
The Human Face
The Cerebral Mime
8. THE CULT OF HOPE
9. THE DRY MILLENNIUM
The Holy War
The Lure of Babylon
Cupid and Well-Water
The Triumph of Idealism
10. APPENDIX ON A TENDER THEME
The Nature of Love
The Incomparable Buzzsaw
Women as Spectacles
Woman and the Artist
Martyrs
The Burnt Child
The Supreme Comedy
A Hidden Cause
Bad Workmanship