Prejudices, First Series
Author: first_name: H. L.
last_name: Mencken
Language: English
Year: 1919

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time.  Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen, Arnold Bennett, William Dean Howells, Irvin S. Cobb.  Mencken's critiques are delivered against a background of his own well known ethnic, racial, religious, and sectional prejudices.  (It is said that the only thing Mencken loved about the Southern United States was his wife, who h