[Ebook free] A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
♥ H.L. Mencken ♥
| #725525 in Books | Melville House | 2006-09-01 | 2006-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.50 x5.50l,.61 | File Name: 1933633174 | 206 pages |
||26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| "...the imbecility called Fundamentalism..." *|By Kerry Walters|I'm not especially an admirer of Mencken. He bothers me for much the same reason that Oscar Wilde does: both have a tendency to shoot for the biting witticism, the memorable bon mot, rather than depth. They're sometimes fun to read, but they rarely serve up anything one can sink one's teeth into.
M|About the Author|H.L. Mencken is one of American history's foremost journalists. Writing from the turn of the century until the late 1940's for the Baltimore Sun newspaper, he was known for a savage wit, an erudite if salty language, and an iconoclastic
"The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition." —Alistair Cooke
Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and the classic Hollywood movie Inherit the Wind.
Mencken’ s no-...
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