The Skeptic - A Life of H. L. Mencken

When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mencken's energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful biography of this iconoclastic figure and the world he shaped.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Terry Teachout, Teachout Terry
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.11.2003
• EAN: 9780060505295
• ISBN: 978-0-06-050529-5
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Giornalismo; Biography: general, Memoirs, History of Science, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, True war and combat stories, Biography: historical, political and military, Literature: history and criticism, Political leaders and leadership, Publishing industry and journalism, HISTORY: WORLD, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SCIENCE: History, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Cultural & Regional