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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun.
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Ralph Baker
reviewed On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe on December 15, 2019 On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
H.L. Mencken had to have been possessed with a sense of political prophecy like few others. His acerbic style and pronounced adversarial role glaring at the issues of his time appear to be most appropriate even now. The one glaring example from his writings in the 1920's suggests strongly his ability to look into the future, providing us this:
"On some great and glorious day, the plain folk of the land will reach their heart's desires and,
at long last, the White House will be adorned with a downright moron!" Does this suggest,
given our present circumstance that Mr. Mencken was correct? I think so. A Carnival of
Buncombe belongs in everyone political library. Send one to your Congressman … it is
urgently needed!!
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