Vidal: In Defense of Mencken

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Sun Sep 1 12:46:45 PDT 2002


Foreward to the 1991 book _The Impossible H.L. Mencken_ edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

H. L. Mencken by Gore Vidal

<http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mencken.htm>

In addition to the racist slurs in his private letters, he was also a goldbug, adamantly opposed to the New Deal, and quite open with his hostility to democracy. I'd wager that the last, however, did well-equip him to skewer popular lunacies.

-- Shane, who owns both of Mencken's Chrestomathies

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