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- Artikelzustand
- Publication Date
- 2005-11-01
- Pages
- 672
- ISBN
- 9780195072389
- Book Title
- Mencken : the American Iconoclast
- Item Length
- 6.2in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary
- Item Width
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 37.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers captures both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs that made him known as "The German Valentino" and his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, who, despite a fatal illness, refused to become a victim and earned his deepest love. The book discusses his friendships, especially his complicated but stimulating partnership with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech. We see the prominent role he played in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language , Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining the shape of American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury , magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. The paradoxes of Mencken's life are explored, as new gaps are filled regarding his notorious views of minorities and his conflict, as a German American, during two world wars. And throughout, Rodgers captures the irrepressible spirit and irreverent wit for which Mencken was famed. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195072383
ISBN-13
9780195072389
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46583407
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mencken : the American Iconoclast
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.2in
Item Height
2.2in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
37.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3525.E43z79 2005
Reviews
"Every new generation should rediscover H. L. Mencken, and every journalist should read this fine biography. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has produced a balanced, measured portrait, proving herself as adept at probing the labyrinth of Mencken's private life as she is at placing his iconoclasm inthe context of his times."--The London Sunday Times, "Marion Elizabeth Rodgers is a thorough scholar and not--like so manyAmerican biographers--an idolater; she has delicate intuition about her subject,a lively awareness of the warts, and overall good judgement."--AlistairCooke, "In this splendid biography...Rodgers juggles the dense narrative of Mencken's life and times with considerable dexterity, while also providing a glimpse into his very private world.... His was one of the key American literary lives of the 20th century and Rodgers has, quite simply, done himproud."--The London Independent, "The most superb and entertaining biography (in any field) that I've read in years, one that has 'National Book Award' stamped all over it."--Joseph Goulden, Washington Times, "The greatest American master of witty invective was also an eccentric,vulnerable human being. So we learn from Marion Rodgers's wonderful book.Wonderful and timely. 'Heave an egg out of a Pullman window,' he wrote, 'and youwill hit a Fundamentalist almost anywhere in the United States today.' Toparaphrase Wordsworth on Milton, 'Mencken! Thou shouldst be living at thishour.'"--Anthony Lewis, "Marion Rodgers has written a comprehensive and humane biography.... In these troubled times, compared to Mencken, with all his faults, we journalists look like pygmies."--The London Literary Review, "H.L. Mencken, the legendary scourge of the booboisie, infuriatedred-state Americans while enchanting urban freethinkers, boozers, andlong-haired eggheads. In this full length portrait of the great hell-raiser andhis era, Marion Rodgers discloses an old-fashioned mama's boy and a warm andapparently irresistable lover of women. Also--what a rarity!--a trulyindependent mind."--Russell Baker, The most superb and entertaining biography (in any field) that I've read in years, one that has "National Book Award" stamped all over it., "A superb study of the life of the cigar-chomping controversialist, civillibertarian and muckraker who remains the patron saint of journalists, at leastof a certain age.... The best biography of Mencken to date."--Kirkus Reviews(starred review), "H.L. Mencken--Henry to his friends--has always been a hard nut to crack.Now Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has, for once and for all, just about done it....In clear and forceful prose he would have approved of, Rodgers gives Mencken hisrightful place in American literature and life. Her bookis...captivating."--Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times, "By far the best Mencken biography ever written--and this reviewer has read almost a dozen.... This book is a masterpiece.... If you care about America, ideas, courage, and good writing and read only one biography this year, I would suggest this be the one."--Toledo Blade, "Even now, almost 50 years after his death, many of Mencken's political insights hold true...as Rodgers shows in this thorough work, Mencken was more than a newspaperman and prolific author.... This is a meticulous portrait of one of the most original and complicated men in American letters."--Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Skillfully written, broadly encompassing and fairly bristling with documentation, it is, overall, the best--as well as longest--of the four [major Mencken biographies]."--Chicago Sun-Times, "Provides new insights into the inner life and character of a man who hasalways been an enigma.... But it is her sympathetic yet unflinching look atMencken the lover and Mencken the (falsely) accused bigot and defender of Hitlerthat make her book special.... Rodgers' biography brings fresh understanding toAmerica's greatest journalist, who approached every subject with completefearlessness and honesty and the conviction that the writer must always put on agood show. Did he ever."--Memphis Flyer, "The most complete and the most living picture of H. L. Mencken that hasever been attempted, written with vividness and even poignancy. This is adefinitive biography."--Charles Fecher, editor, The Diary of H. L. Mencken, andauthor of Mencken: A Study of His Thought, To the immense credit of Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, this splendid new biography maintains an intelligent critical distance when it comes to Mencken's manifold complexities. More tellingly, Rodger's exhaustively researched and immensely readable doorstopper of a book does shrewdly show how Mencken's career parallelled the casting-off of America's 19th century parochialism and its emergence as a brash world pweor... Rodgers juggles the dense narrative of Mencken's life and times with considerable dexterity. Rodgers has, quite simply, done him proud., "Definitive.... The last word on perhaps the most famous newspaper man of the 20th century."--Bloomsberg News, "Rodgers isn't the first to tell the story of powerful and controversial thinker and writer Mencken, but her affection for this notorious iconoclast and her access to untapped sources make for a uniquely fresh and absorbing biography."--Booklist (in naming Mencken one of the top tenbiographies of the year)
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-047786
Dewey Decimal
818/.5209 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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