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	H. L. Mencken
		Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a cigar factory owner.
		Mencken was an outspoken defender of freedom of conscience and civil rights, an opponent of persecution and of injustice and of the puritanism and self-righteousness that masks the oppressive impulse.
		Mencken died in 1956 and was interred in the Loudon Park Cemetery[?] in Baltimore, Maryland.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Mencken.html (1869 words)

	H. L. Mencken Room and Collection - Humanities Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, MD
		Mencken continued to live there all his life in spite of allurements to move to New York, which he termed "a third-rate Babylon," preferring to remain in and of "the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay." As a boy, Mencken attended F. Knapp's Institute, and later the Polytechnic.
		Mencken's own story of his life, up to his twelfth year, in Happy Days is a delightful account of bourgeois boyhood and Baltimore in the 1880's.
		Mencken gained a reputation in the trade as a boy wonder, for he was industrious and fertile and learned all there was to learn about a newspaper in a few years.
	www.pratt.lib.md.us /slrc/hum/mencken.html (1897 words)

	Mencken
		Mencken said, "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
		Mencken thought that people with superior intellect must be in control for society to function properly (Douglas 73).
		Mencken’s ideas have made predictions that have weathered the sands of time but other ideas have not done as well.
	www.msu.edu /course/mc/112/1920s/Mencken/government.html (1622 words)

	H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian by Murray N. Rothbard
		Mencken's liberating force, of course, was exerted not on the mass of men, but on the scattered but intelligent few who could appreciate and be influenced by what he had to say; in short, like his old friend and fellow-libertarian, Albert Jay Nock, Mencken wrote for (and liberated) The Remnant who would understand.
		Mencken had little faith in the ability of revolutions to effect an overthrow on behalf of liberty: "Political revolutions do not often accomplish anything of genuine value; their one undoubted effect is simply to throw out one gang of thieves and put in another.
		Mencken's atheism is, again, well-known, but for him passionate hostility was reserved for those religious groups which persisted in imposing their moral codes by coercion upon the rest of the population.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard19.html (6829 words)

	Mencken
		Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and died there in 1956--a lifelong "Baltimoron," as he characterized himself.
		In this collection, Mencken, who describes his aim as "to present a selection from my out-of-print writings," eschews "journalism pure and simple--dead almost before the ink which printed it was dry" in favor of "material that continues to be of more or less current interest" (iv, vi).
		Mencken's dominant pose mingles a sense of superiority with comic vulgarity as he responds to the opposition (politicians, church leaders, "academic idiots," chiropractors, Klansmen, and various other species of "boobus Americanus") with explosive laughter and ridicule.
	www.nt.armstrong.edu /mencken.htm (1114 words)

	The Capuchin Mencken by Daniel McCarthy
		That’s the Capuchin Mencken, the Mencken of the neoconservatives.
		Mencken is so far removed from that party line, so politically incorrect even to those who think of themselves as opponents of p.c., that his critics (especially those on the putative Right) can hardly take him seriously.
		Mencken was no supporter of Hitler, and even Kramer doesn’t dare suggest that he was, but his love of German culture and his contempt for mass democracy are bad enough.
	www.lewrockwell.com /dmccarthy/dmccarthy46.html (1578 words)

	H. L. Mencken
		Mencken's study on the philosophy of Nietzsche (1908) was partly inspired by his own bourgeois German background.
		Mencken was one of the most influential American critics in the 1920s.
		Mencken died of heart failure on January 29, 1956 in Baltimore, in the row house on Hollins Street where he had lived most of his life.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /mencken.htm (1071 words)

	H.L. Mencken - MSN Encarta
		Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist, critic, and essayist, whose perceptive and often controversial analyses of American life and letters made him one of the most influential critics of the 1920s and 1930s.
		Mencken's most important piece of scholarship was The American Language (1919; revised editions, 1921, 1923, 1936, 1963; supplements, 1945 and 1948), which traced the development and established the importance of American English.
		Beginning in 1971, Mencken's letters, diaries, papers, and unpublished manuscripts were periodically released under the terms of his will.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570370/H_L_Mencken.html (304 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: H. L. Mencken
		H. Mencken once wrote that eventually "the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
		In this case the attribution to Henry Louis Mencken, a prominent newspaperman and political commentator during the first half of the
		Mencken, H. On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe.
	www.snopes.com /politics/quotes/mencken.asp (349 words)

	American Experience \| Monkey Trial \| People & Events
		Mencken was responsible for suggesting to Clarence Darrow that he volunteer his services in the defense of John Scopes.
		Mencken hoped to witness a showdown between Darrow and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan.
		Mencken really believed that there was a small elite of educated and cultivated and intelligent human beings, and then there were the masses who were really ignorant and capable of nothing but being led and bamboozled."
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_mencken.html (736 words)

	The Bathtub, Mencken, and War
		The article was so titled because, as Mencken declared, America had neglected to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the invention of the modern bathtub which had occurred on December 20, 1842 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		Mencken was enraged by the popular portrayal of Germans as 'barbarous Huns' who committed atrocities such as the widely-reported bayoneting of Belgian babies.
		Mencken speculated on the probable response to his confession, "The Cincinnati boomer, who have made much of the boast that the bathtub industry, now running to $200,000,000 a year, was started in their town, will charge me with spreading lies against them.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/mencken.htm (1503 words)

	Mencken and Me, Hal Crowther
		God knows Mencken was belligerent, even warlike in his popular persona, but he and I were among those who know almost from infancy that our anger will be expressed with the pen, not the sword.
		Though I am, like Mencken, the eldest son of an eldest son of an only son, and have spent most of my adult life dispensing opinions for a living, I do not exaggerate when I claim to be the most modest and least opinionated male my family has produced since the Civil War.
		Mencken, who was more of a romantic than he'd ever admit, leaned toward the second, the mandarin error.
	www.blackbird.vcu.edu /v1n1/nonfiction/crowther_h/mencken.htm (2788 words)

	CNN.com - Books - H.L. Mencken enjoys presidential campaign revival - November 1, 2000
		For Mencken, the sharp-tongued satirist who lampooned the American political scene of the early 20th century, politics was "a carnival of buncombe" run by "clowns" and "mountebanks" who were always ready to dispense whatever flapdoodle would appeal to what he called the "mob" of voters.
		Mencken, who died at 75 in 1956, sprang from the same satirical vein as Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Dorothy Parker and Russell Baker.
		Mencken was not out to abolish democracy but to encourage the voter to ignore false pretense and choose his candidate "as he makes his selection between two heads of cabbage, or two evening papers, or two brands of chewing tobacco."
	edition.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/01/campaign.mencken.reut (1289 words)

	Porchez Typofonderie [Fonts Typefaces] - Mencken Text Pack
		Mencken Text (in addition the subhead) is a low contrast Transitional-style typeface designed with an oblique axis, an emphasis on horizontals and possesses open counters.
		Mencken Head (and various narrow widths) is a high contrast typeface designed in the style of the Didot (typical french typeface from the end of 18th century) not so common in North America today.
		Mencken Text is a typeface family in which its reserved use is for The Baltimore Sun until September 2008; after which, it can be used for all project types.
	www.typofonderie.com /alphabets/view/MenckenText (457 words)

	German American Corner: MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956), American journalist, critic, and essayist, whose perceptive and often controversial analyses of American life and letters made him one of the most influential critics of the 1920s and '30s.
		Mencken, born in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 12, 1880, began his career as a journalist with the Baltimore Morning Herald and in 1906 switched to the Baltimore Sun, where he remained in various editorial capacities for most of his life.
		Mencken's most important piece of scholarship was The American Language (3 vol., 1936-48), which traced the development and established the importance of AMERICAN ENGLISH (q.v.).
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/mencken.html (667 words)

	The Irrepressible Mencken
		Behind the particulars looms a broader indictment: that Mencken was a complacent and incurious bourgeois, blindly faithful to 19th-century notions of laissez faire and social Darwinism.
		But where Rodgers—a lay scholar of Mencken since the day she tripped over a bundle of his love letters in the Goucher College library—shines is in giving us the most recognizably human Mencken to date.
		For Mencken, always skeptical of higher values, the purpose of literature was simply to show life as it is, in all its amorality.
	www.amconmag.com /2006/2006_01_30/article2.html (2864 words)

	H.L. Mencken - UMKC School of Law
		The most frequent targets of Mencken’s flamboyant wit were fundamentalists—largely because of their constant efforts to employ the power of government to enforce their moral views.
		Mencken contended that if “Genesis embodies a mathematically accurate statement of what took place the week of June 3, 4004 B.C.” then “all of modern science is nonsense” 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.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menckenh.htm (1862 words)

	Review Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mencken's own paper, the Baltimore Sun, took the lead in denouncing his alleged sundry bigotries, and editor Fecher himself stated, flatly, that "Mencken was an anti-Semite"-a charge carefully and, I believe, persuasively rebutted by Joseph Epstein in Commentary.
		Mencken liked to describe his distinctive vocation as that of a "critic of ideas," and it is perhaps the greatest of the paradoxes of Mencken's literary life that his more formal philosophical, theological, and political speculations have worn poorly, though he believed them to be among his finest efforts.
		Mencken's lasting reputation is built on his reporting, his philology, his skills as a memoirist, and his work as an editor-a role in which he had, arguably, his greatest influence on American letters.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9505/articles/revessay.html (5790 words)

	Amazon.ca: Treatise on the Gods: Books: H. L. Mencken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mencken examines religion everywhere, from India to Peru, from the myths of Egypt to the traditional beliefs of America's Bible Belt.
		Needless to say, he began life as a lawyer." Mencken is no less interested in the dissidents: "The Reformers were men of courage, but not many of them were intelligent." Against the old-time religion of fellow countrymen, Mencken posed as a figure of old-time skepticism, and he reaped the whirlwind.
		Mencken offers a simple account for the rise of religion that is not founded on much more than his own imagination.
	www.amazon.ca /Treatise-Gods-H-L-Mencken/dp/080185654X (1812 words)

	Baltimore Travel Itinerary--H. L. Mencken House
		A curmudgeon with an acidic writing style, Mencken gained national recognition as one of the most influential critics of American culture, politics, education and life, coining the word "booboisie" to describe the American public.
		Mencken himself came from German ancestry, and was vocal about his opposistion to American involvement in World War I. Mencken's interests went beyond the politics and contemporary culture of the day; he once produced a book on the philosophy of German philogist-turned-philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
		Mencken wrote of his house: "I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly 45 years.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/baltimore/b4.htm (369 words)

	Columbia Journalism Review
		The delicate arrangements fell through when Mencken was struck down by a massive stroke that incapacitated him for the rest of his life.
		Indeed, young Mencken was heavily influenced by Twain, who painted the reporter's life as an adventure quite as romantic as that of a Wild West cowboy.
		Much is made of Mencken as critic, literary man, and thinker, but if he is to take on currency now, the legs upon which he stands are those of the newspaperman.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2003/1/mencken-payne.asp (2369 words)

	Q&A with Terry Teachout on H. L. Mencken on National Review Online
		His two novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, though of course they don't sound anything like Mencken, have something of his directness — his willingness to write about men and institutions as they really are — as well as a good deal of his stylistic vitality.
		Mencken's first two volumes of autobiographical essays, "Happy Days" and "Newspaper Days," are the best things he ever wrote — classics of American reminiscence, though not yet widely recognized as such.
		In 1948, Mencken suffered a stroke that deprived him of the power to read and write — a fate worthy of Greek drama — and spent the last eight years of his life unable to practice his trade.
	www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/interrogatory111502.asp (1644 words)

	Henry Louis Mencken Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Mencken was born in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 12, 1880, and privately educated there.
		Mencken's journalistic skills became his chief handicap as a critic, for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention, esthetic and philosophical distinctions for the reductions of easy reading, and subtleties of statement for buffoonery and bombast.
		Mencken's other works include Ventures into Verse (1903), Bernard Shaw: The Plays (1905), The Artist (a play, 1912), A Book of Burlesques (1916), A Little Book in C Major (1916), Damn: A Book of Calumny (1918), Heliogablus (1920), Making a President (1932), New Dictionary of Quotations (1942), Christmas Story (1946), and Mencken Chrestomathy (1949).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/henry-louis-mencken (754 words)

	About the H. L. Mencken House
		In Mencken’s lifetime as well as today, the rowhouse on 1524 Hollins Street, overlooking Union Square, is one of the most famous addresses in America.
		And here is where Mencken wrote the newspaper columns and books that made him, in the wards of journalist Walter Lippmann, “the most powerful personal influence” in America, celebrated for the wit and humor that many have compared to Mark Twain.
		After Mencken’s stroke in 1948, the garden was a comforting refuge, a place to smoke a cigar and look at the stars.
	www.menckenhouse.org /about/about_house.htm (731 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 09/24/2006 \| Mencken house's fate, like author, is complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Prejudices (1926), Mencken wrote of his family house, "It is as much a part of me as my two hands." Mencken worked indefatigably in its long garden, ornamenting the extensive brick wall he built with items like a Beethoven life mask, installing a sundial and a pergola.
		One problem in the past, says Bainum, was "different approaches" by the "Society" and the "Friends of the Mencken House." He says "the two groups have come together over the last six months with kind of a common voice." Placing the "Friends" under the umbrella of the "Society" seems to have solved the problem.
		Lord explains that the Society feels Mencken supporters have "essentially paid in labor and money for the house" by their longtime efforts, "and it should be transferred to us for a nominal amount of money.
	www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/entertainment/15582536.htm (1434 words)

	Home Page: Mencken Society
		Mencken Society member Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast (OUP, 2005), will speak on the life and work of the “Sage of Baltimore”.
		The Mencken House, 1524 Hollins St, will be open December 10, 2006, from noon to 5:00 PM as part of Union Square’s Annual Christmas Cookie Tour.
		It is a complete bibliography of the collection assembled by Richard Frary and donated to the Sheridan Libraries of The Johns Hopkins University in honor of fellow alum and noted antiquarian bookseller, Robert Wilson.
	www.mencken.org (574 words)

	H. L. Mencken Life Stories, Books, & Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When H. Mencken was eight years old, he wandered into his local newspaper, entranced by the workings of the hand press.
		One of Mencken's Laws was "Nature abhors a moron," and one of his favorite pastimes was to attack the South; upon finding itself elevated to "the apex of moronia," Arkansas had apparently had enough.
		Mencken's lifelong campaign to deride and derail Main Street America -- the "booboisie" -- had a number of easy victories, but this joke at the expense of the squeaky-clean succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/h.l.mencken.asp (666 words)

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