H.L. Mencken

Newspaper Days

Memoir recounting years spent as journalist and editor covering major news

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H.L. Mencken

American journalist and satirist whose vitriolic wit and relentless mockery of American democracy, religion, and provincial culture dominated the 1920s. The American Language is his scholarly contribution to linguistics. He covered the Scopes Trial with gleeful contempt for the prosecution.

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