1. Home Page Mencken Society works of Henry Louis Mencken (188009 Dr Vince Fitzpatrick has updated his short biography, H. L. Mencken, originally published by in 1989 http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

2. H. L. Mencken Quotes - The Quotations Page Quotations by Author H. L. Mencken (1880 1956) US editor more author details Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 56 total Next Page - http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

3. H. L. Mencken Room And Collection - Humanities Department - Enoch Mencken was born on September 12 1880 The H.L. Mencken Room and Collection http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

4. Henry Louis Mencken, 1880-1956 Prejudices First Series. HTML and SGML full text of H.L. Mencken's 1919 work, along with title page illustration. Sponsored by the Documenting the American South project at http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

5. PAL H. L.Mencken (1880-1956) An Ongoing Online Project Paul P. Reuben Chapter 7 Early Twentieth Century H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956) http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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7. Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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9. H.L. Mencken Quotes Quotes From H. L. Mencken. Henry Louis Mencken (18801956) No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

10. German American Corner MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956) MENCKEN, Henry Louis (18801956), American H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

11. The H. L. Mencken Page - A Mencken Cornucopia - Guide To H. L. Mencken Resources Provides a brief profile of the life and works of the most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day with comprehensive links to other informative sites. http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/

Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) by Gibbons Burke T he most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay. M encken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories , edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions: No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article. A cigar jammed in the side of Mencken's mouth completes the image. Rare is the picture of him without one in a hand, his mouth, or a nearby ashtray. (His father was the owner of Baltimore's Mencken Cigar Company, which provided Mencken his first gainful employment, which he ditched not long after his father's death to become a cub reporter.) Here's Mencken's assessment of life in the United States:

12. A Bum's Christmas By H. L. Mencken HL Mencken (18801956), the legendary Baltimore newspaperman, wrote the followingstory, originally entitled Stare Decisis, for the New Yorker. http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/bumsxmas.html

A Bum's Christmas By H.L. MENCKEN Printed in The Wall Street Journal Editorial page - December 24, 1998 H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), the legendary Baltimore newspaperman, wrote the following story, originally entitled "Stare Decisis," for the New Yorker. It was published as a book in 1948. To mark the book's 50th anniversary, we present Journal readers with a slightly abbreviated version of Mencken's classic tale. Despite all the snorting against them in works of divinity, it has always been my experience that infidelsor freethinkers, as they usually prefer to call themselvesare a generally estimable class of men, with strong overtones of the benevolent and even of the sentimental. This was certainly true, for example, of Leopold Bortsch, Totsaufer [customers' man] for the Scharnhorst Brewery, in Baltimore, forty-five years ago. . . . He was a sincere friend to the orphans, the aged, all blind and one-legged men, ruined girls, opium fiends, Chinamen, oyster dredgers, ex-convicts, the more respectable sort of colored people, and all the other oppressed and unfortunate classes of the time, and he slipped them, first and last, many a substantial piece of money. Nor was he the only Baltimore infidel of those days who thus shamed the churchly. Indeed, the name of one of his buddies, Fred Ammermeyer, jumps into my memory at once. Fred and Leopold, I gathered, had serious dogmatic differences, for there are as many variations in doctrine between infidels as between Christians, but the essential benignity of both men kept them on amicable terms, and they often cooperated in good works. The only noticeable difference between them was that Fred usually tried to sneak a little propaganda into his operationsa dodge that the more scrupulous Leopold was careful to avoid. . . . [H]e sent each and every one of the clergy of the town a copy of Paine's "Age of Reason" three or four times a yearalways disguised as a special delivery or registered letter marked "Urgent". . . .

13. Home Page: Mencken Society Promotes the reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken (18801956), The LateHL Mencken 1930-1939, 6. Wink at a Homley Girl 1940-1956, 7. http://www.mencken.org/

The Mencken Society Home Pa g e Honoring the memory of and promoting the reading of the living works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12—1956-01-29), the “Sage of Baltimore”, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast. “If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.” —“Epitaph”, Smart Set , 1921-12-03, p. 33 Welcome Newcomer! Resources Mencken Quotes Mencken Sampler ... Memento Mori Der Tag, 2005-09-10 Mencken Day this year is on the 10th of September, as always a Saturday, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD. The featured speaker is Clarinda Harriss , Professor of English at Towson University and daughter of R(obert) P(reston) Harriss (1903-1989). Mr Mencken was instrumental in bringing Mr Harriss to the Sun from North Carolina around 1926. Prof. Harriss will talk about “Conversing with Mencken or Discovering How Brilliant YOU Are (Especially If You’re a Pretty Woman), and Other reflections Based on My Family History.”

14. Recommended Reading Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis), 18801956. HL Mencken on Music A Selection of HisWritings on Music Together With an Account of HL Mencken rsquo;s Musical Life . http://www.mencken.org/files/text/recommended_reading.htm

Recommended Reading Quotes Biographies Works by HLM Criticism ... Related Where do I start? A recent query of the Enoch Pratt Library’s catalog with the search word “Mencken” got 262 hits, showing that the Menckenophile can spend a good portion of his life reading works by and about the Sage. The list presented here is greatly reduced in scale. The emphasis is on books in print, with a few out-of-print titles included because of their merit. The out-of-print works should be available in any library worthy of the name. A good start would be The Vintage Mencken , compiled by Alistair Cooke. The book’s forty-nine selections give a wide sampling of Mencken’s work, ranging from excerpts from the nostalgic Days books to examples of Mencken’s literary criticism, political essays, reporting, commentary and more. It includes the essays one would count as the “Best of Mencken”. The reader who finds The Vintage Mencken agreeable is ready to move on to the Chrestomathy , HLM’s own selection from his writings of "material that continues to be of more or less current interest". This work contains 240 selections and includes several pieces, such as "A Neglected Anniversary" (‘The bathtub Hoaxrsquo;), for which Mencken is famous. Mencken’s writings still retain the power to offend modern sensibilities. The thick skinned may want to move on to

15. H. L. Mencken H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (18801956) For further reading The Man Mencken byIsaac Goldberg (1925); HL Mencken by Ernest Boyd (1925); The Irreverent Mr. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mencken.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956) American literary critic, humorous journalist, essayist, whose comic skepticism about human progress, expressed with penetrating style, is a treasure for all interested in extravagant language. Mencken wrote - according to some estimations - 3 000 newspaper columns. During the 15-year period following World War I, Mencken set the standard for satire in his day, and his essays are still widely read. "Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth." (from 'The Libido for the Ugly', 1927) Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His grandfather had prospered in the tobacco business and his father, August, continued the family tradition. Mencken studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (1892-96) and then worked at his father's cigar factory. After his father died in 1899, Mencken was free to choose his own trade in the world. "I chose newspaper work without any hesitation whatever, and. save when the scent of a passing garbage-cart has revived my chemical libido, I have never regretted my choice," he later said. He was a reporter or editor for several Baltimore papers, among them Baltimore Morning Herald . He later joined the staff of the

16. H.L. Mencken: Biography And Much More From Answers.com Works by HL Mencken (18801956) Mencken, HL. (1880-1956), journalist, editor,author, and philologist. Mencken was born, lived, and died in Baltimore, http://www.answers.com/topic/h-l-mencken

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Personalities Dictionary Encyclopedia Works Literature WordNet US History Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping H.L. Mencken Personalities Source H.L. Mencken Writer / Editor Born: 12 September 1880 Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland Died: 29 January 1956 Best Known As: Famously ascerbic columnist for the Baltimore Sun Name at birth: Henry Louis Mencken A reporter, columnist and editor for Baltimore's Sun papers (1906-48), H.L. Mencken was one of America's foremost men of letters during the first part of the 20th century. A sharp critic of hypocrisy in religion and politics, he was especially well-known in the 1920s for his witty and insightful commentaries on the wretchedness of humanity. He edited the satirical magazines The Smart Set (1914-23) and American Mercury (1925-33) (along with George Jean Nathan) and published collected essays ( Prejudices , 6 volumes, 1919-27) and books, including the philological undertaking The American Language (1919). Less popular in his later years, in 1948 he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. In recent years his literary reputation has suffered as a result of charges that he was a racist and anti-Semite.

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18. German American Corner: MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Mencken, Henry Louis (18801956), American journalist, critic, and essayist,whose perceptive and HL Mencken, Minority Report HL Mencken s Notebooks http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/mencken.html

Visit the German Corner Home Page Privacy Statement German Corner Website German-American Mall ... Next Page MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Quotations: Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major Alimony_The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chresto- mathy A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy

19. H.L. Mencken - UMKC School Of Law HL Mencken (18801956) by Doug Linder (2004). Journalist HL Mencken describedhimself as “absolutely devoid of what is called religious feeling. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menckenh.htm

H.L. M encken (1880-1956) by Doug Linder (2004) Surveying American religious life, Mencken found it to be a nearly endless source of material for his iconoclastic pen. Like Darrow, Mencken could not tolerate intolerance. He believed deeply that individuals should be left to pursue happiness as they saw fit, with as little interference as possible from government or anyone else. Fundamentalists, in the view of Mencken, belonged to the great masses of Americans who neither appreciated, nor contributed to, the best of American culture. They, like most people, were ignorant, ignoble, and cowardly. Moreover, fundamentalists lacked the intelligence to understand their own follies and superstitions. Homo boobiens On that point, he had no dispute with most other intellectuals of his time. Mencken differed from other critics of fundamentalism, however, in his insistence that science and Christianity in general could not be reconciled. For Mencken, the Scopes trial was the journalistic opportunity of a lifetime. In a letter from Dayton , the iconoclastic editor of American Mercury and columnist for the Baltimore Sun told a friend that he found the chaotic scene in Dayton almost too good to be true.

20. American History 102 Image Gallery: Mencken, H.L. Name, Mencken, HL. Subject, Intellectuals. HL Mencken (18801956), journalist,editor, and critic. Home Course Guide Bios Photos Exams http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1047.html

American History 102 Photo Gallery Previous Index Next SHSW Location: Name File: "Mencken" Notes: Signed: "Breakfast in a Free State! H.L. Mencken" Modifications: The image is approximately 1/4 size original. Drop shadow border added; colors reduced to sixteen grays. For more information or to obtain rights for this image, contact the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Visual Materials Archive at (608) 264-6470. Name: Mencken, H.L. Subject: Intellectuals H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, editor, and critic Home Course Guide Bios ... Comments/Sign-in

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