1. Mencken and Politics.
- Author
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Yarling, Bass
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BOOKS & reading , *POLITICAL development , *CONVALESCENCE - Abstract
This article presents information on the book "A Carnival of Buncombe," by H.L. Mencken, and edited by Malcolm Moos. The current serving comprises a series of political essays called "Monday Articles." The essays covered--from diagnosis to prognosis to post-mortem--five Presidential campaigns which blustered through the mortifications of economic boom, collapse and convalescence; yet economic considerations get no more than an absent-minded nod from the author. The chief value of this exhumation lies not so much in what Mencken says about politics as in what the articles say about Mencken--the man, the legend and the method.
- Published
- 1956