Mencken: The American Iconoclast : The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore
(2010)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2010
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (24hr., 14 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982460563 MWT10026133, 1982460563 10026133
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Patrick Cullen
H. L. Mencken, the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a fearless iconoclast, fought for civil liberties and free speech yet held paradoxical views of minorities and was conflicted as a German-American during World War II. Marion Rodgers frames the public man and the private man within the context of his era, and covers the many love affairs that made him known as the "German Valentino," his happy marriage at age fifty to Sarah Haardt, and his pivotal role in introducing James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes to the American literary scene
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