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This is the latest of Joshi s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist. Richard J. Schrader, author of H. L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume

This is the latest of Joshi s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist. Richard J. Schrader, author of <i>H. L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume</i></p>

This book fills a significant gap in the republication of Mencken's newspaper work and criticism, and with Joshi's judicious selection and substantial critical introduction, makes an important and useful contribution to Mencken scholarship. --Frederick Betz, editor of Menckeniana In this collection ... we get a sense of the issues that defined Mencken's voice--freedom from censorship and battling against temperance and other moral reform movements among them--and the passion behind a man hellbent on ridding his community of, as he writes, 'stupidity, flapdoodle, and buncombe.' --Baltimore Magazine This is the latest of Joshi's important contributions to the broadening of Mencken's general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore's star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America's greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist. --Richard J. Schrader, author of H.L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume This is the latest of Joshi's important contributions to the broadening of Mencken's general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore's star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America's greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist. -- Richard J. Schrader, author of H. L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume This is the latest of Joshi s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist. Richard J. Schrader, author of H. L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume

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S. T. Joshi has edited several collections of Mencken’s writings, including H. L. Mencken on American Literature, Mencken’s America, and Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings. He is also an authority on literature of the supernatural and author of The Weird Tale, Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, and other critical and biographical studies.

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