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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say that critics haven’t been saying about him for a hundred years?  Mencken lacerates more nonsense and makes more sense--common and uncommon--than everyone else that has lived or is to be born.  Possibly the most respected journalist of all time. Father of muckraking, destroyer of pop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25592474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Has America ever had a greater prose stylist than Henry Mencken? It's not just that each of his sentences has a logical essence to it that builds upon and adds to what came before it. It's that those sentences have a pulsing rhythm that seem to pour forth from him in a steadily increasing tempo, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76213327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Mencken Chrestomathy&quot; was originally published in 1948, when H L Mencken was 68, shortly before a stroke ended his writing career. It's my favorite collection of Mencken's writings, possibly because he selected the contents himself. He had been a journalist, literary critic and cultural...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68636618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[People need to read more Mencken.<br/><br/>&quot;If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over the years I've read bits and pieces of this collection of bits and pieces. I was most fascinated with it when I was in my early twenties. My father was a big reader and he would, on occasion, ask me to get THE MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY out of his study so he could read a passage to me and my brother...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1871180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a Mencken fan, and this book provides a very good overview of his work. I gave it four stars instead of five, however, only to reflect the fact that I do not always agree with his views even though I love the way he expresses them. He is responsible for introducing several new and useful words ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65092348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a Nietzschean, Mencken was quite humorous, as well as culturally insightful.  Except he suffered many of the same problems Nietzsche suffered from-- a man without a chest, complaining about other men who lacked chests.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be the meanest sane man to ever walk the earth.  Funny, but excruciatingly cruel.  Like reading a funnier, meaner, smarter, better-read, whiter Chris Rock.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mencken will always be one of my top ten favorite wordslingers. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Mencken Chrestomathy is choice selection of H.L. Mencken's previously out-of-print writings.  That alone is all that one needs to know.    ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will never forget &quot;The Husbandman&quot;.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is funny. I was bored, but that was my fault.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tremendous, essential collection of essays by H.L. Mencken, one of America's great writers.  Includes his fantastic pieces on chiropractic, execution, and the death of the Scopes Trial.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had to live with one book, this would be it. I'm a huge Mencken fan, and there's plenty of his outside of this book that I need access to, but this is a great place to start.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Acting as his own editor, Mencken proves he was better at writing polemics than reading them. Seek out a superior anthology; I think there's one by Alistair Cooke or something.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read his articles about Prohibition and how it was ended.  Very relevant for the present drug war.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pithy writing and Misanthropy at its best. They do not hire writers like this anymore.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's no one like like this guy. Accept Mencken before he destroys you.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[he loses a star for being a vicious, racist shitbag. i'm sensitive.]]></body>
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