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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: Third series contains the following essays: 1. ON BEING AN AMERICAN 2. HUNEKER: A MEMORY 3. FOOTNOTE ON CRITICISM 4. DAS KAPITAL 5. AD IMAGINEM DEI CREAVIT ILLUM The Life of Man The Anthropomorphic Delusion Meditation on Meditation. Man and His Soul Coda 6. STAR-SPANGLED MEN 7. THE POET AND HIS ART 8. FIVE MEN AT RANDOM Abraham Lincoln Paul Elmer More Madison Cawein Frank Harris Havelock Ellis 9. THE NATURE OF LIBERTY 10. THE NOVEL 11. THE FORWARD-LOOKER 12. MEMORIAL SERVICE 13. EDUCATION 14. TYPES OF MEN The Romantic The Skeptic The Believer The Worker The Physician The Scientist The Business Man The King The Average Man The Truth-Seeker The Pacifist The Relative The Friend 15. THE DISMAL SCIENCE 16. MATTERS OF STATE Le Contrat Social On Minorities 17. REFLECTIONS ON THE DRAMA 18. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN To Him that Hath The Venerable Examined Duty Martyrs The Disabled Veteran Patriotism 19. SUITE AMERICANE Aspiration Virtue Eminence

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