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"""This Holy Terror [H. L. Mencken] from Baltimore is splendidly and exultantly and contagiously alive. He calls you a swine, and an imbecile, and he increases your will to live."" -Walter Lippmann ""Mencken's vigor is...like an electric current. In all he writes there is a crackle of blue sparks...that give you a sense of enormous hidden power. Who could quarrel with such generosity, such vibrating sympathy, and with a mind so intensely alive."" -Joseph Conrad"

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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, critic, and satirist who shaped modern American fiction and public life. His broad-ranging articles were characterized by unexpected, deeply thoughtful, and provocative analysis and assertions. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. He has written introductions to numerous classic works of literature and philosophy.

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