The skeptic
Subtitle: a life of H.L. Mencken
By: Terry Teachout
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780060505288; 9780060505295
Subjects: American Authors; Editors; Biography; Journalists
Description: A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: "I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899 -- -- 2. "A; title: sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906 -- -- 3.; title: "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914 -- -- 4. "The; title: Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918 -- -- 5.; title: "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923 -- -- 6.; title: "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928 -- -- 7.; title: "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935 -- -- 8.; title: "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941 -- -- 9.; title: "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948 -- -- 10.; title: "Until thought and memory adjourn" : scourge at bay, 1948-1956.