Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

MENCKEN UPDATE . . . The Library of America has published H.L. Mencken's six "prejudices" books in a single two-volume set: Prejudices: The Complete Series.

I first read these books in college, where the library had all six books. In the years since, I've tried to buy my own complete set, but only got halfway. Published long ago, the books are difficult to find in good condition. I felt justified in adding the new volume to my long shelf of Menckeniana.

For a review of the book, see this by Katherine A Powers, with its mention of Mencken's "combative, beautifully sprung, ingeniously funny style, as irresistible as a laughing baby." For a biography of Mencken, see Terry Teachout's The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken. For more from this weblog, see this post from one of my more prolific years, 2004: Mencken's Bathtub Hoax.

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).