H. L. Mencken | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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H. L. Mencken


00:01:52 1 Early life
00:04:37 2 Career
00:06:01 3 Personal life
00:06:10 3.1 Marriage
00:07:23 3.2 Great Depression, war and after
00:08:21 3.3 Last days
00:08:58 3.4 Legacy
00:11:50 3.5 Death
00:12:50 4 Beliefs
00:19:38 5 Views
00:19:47 5.1 Race and elitism
00:22:23 5.1.1 Anglo-Saxons
00:23:00 5.1.2 Jews
00:24:40 5.2 Democracy
00:27:07 5.3 Science and mathematics
00:33:51 6 Memorials
00:34:00 6.1 Home
00:34:40 6.2 Papers
00:36:41 7 Works
00:36:50 7.1 Books
00:39:26 7.2 Chapbooks, pamphlets, and notable essays
00:40:03 8 See also



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Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.  He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention.
As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an  admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of religion, populism and representative democracy, the latter of which he viewed as systems in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, and was critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine. He was also an ardent critic of economics.
Mencken opposed both American entry into World War I and World War II. His diary indicates that he was a racist and antisemite, who privately used coarse language and slurs to describe various ethnic and racial groups (though he believed it was in poor taste to use such slurs publicly). Mencken at times seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism, though never in its American form. "War is a good thing," he once wrote, "because it is honest, it admits the central fact of human nature ... A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid."His longtime home in the Union Square neighborhood of West Baltimore was turned into a city museum, the H. L. Mencken House. His papers were distributed among various city and university libraries, with the largest collection held in the Mencken Room at the central branch of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library.