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Damn! A book of Calumny
H. L. Mencken
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Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.”
Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the “Monkey” trial.”
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calumny
[ˈkaləmnē]
NOUN
the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation; slander.
As foretold by the title, this is a collection of defamatory statements by H.L. Mencken on a variety of topics ranging from religion to art and randomness in between. Mencken was a hig
In Damn! A Book of Calumny, H.L. Mencken gives his opinion on a wide variety of subjects ranging from William Jennings Bryan, through Classical Music, to Zoos. I am a huge fan of Mencken’s hilarious, bombastic, and sesquipedalian style. He is the quintessential American cynic and it’s a lot of fun t
I enjoyed this book.
Mencken was a journalist, an essayist, and most of all a contrarian. Damn! is a short collection of his essays that were handpicked by Mencken himself. An eloquent writer, Mencken can be a little sassy (some would even call bigoted) at times. Nonetheless, his style is worth noting and replicating in
Não é que não tenha gostado do estilo e da acidez. Mas é muito áspero ler ideias tão machistas de um jornalista influente e que escreveu por 38 anos em um jornal relevante. Muitos temas são abordados de maneira cínica, o que é delicioso de ler. Suas críticas à humanidade geral são bem engraçadas. As
A ROLLICKING GOOD READ.
“It is the misfortune of humanity that its history is chiefly written by third-rate men.”—page 13
“He [Washington] had no belief in the infallible wisdom of the common people, but regarded them as inflammatory dolts, and tried to save the republic from them.”—page 2
None other,
I see people comparing HL Mencken to Hunter S Thompson in the comments here, which is a fair assessment. However, that's not my first choice of comparison. I see Mencken as an earlier Christopher Hitchens, or even a Mark Steyn. While Hunter would would wreck your favorite social institutions by empl