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Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink. Notoir Books is a publisher of new old books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit us at notoirbooks.com for more. Prejudices: Second series contains the following essays: 1. THE NATIONAL LETTERS Prophets and Their Visions The Answering Fact The Ashes of New England The Ferment Underground In the Literary Abattoir Underlying Causes The Lonesome Artist The Cultural Background Under the Campus Pump The Intolerable Burden Epilogue 2. ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOPSY 3. THE SAHARA OF THE BOZART 4. THE DIVINE AFFLATUS 5. SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF A POPULAR VIRTUE 6. EXEUNT OMNES 7. THE ALLIED ARTS On Music-Lovers Opera The Music of Tomorrow Tempo di Valse The Puritan as Artist The Human Face The Cerebral Mime 8. THE CULT OF HOPE 9. THE DRY MILLENNIUM The Holy War The Lure of Babylon Cupid and Well-Water The Triumph of Idealism 10. APPENDIX ON A TENDER THEME The Nature of Love The Incomparable Buzzsaw Women as Spectacles Woman and the Artist Martyrs The Burnt Child The Supreme Comedy A Hidden Cause Bad Workmanship

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