{"product_id":"a-mencken-chrestomathy-his-own-selection-of-his-choicest-writings-paperback","title":"A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books--the six installments of the Prejudices series, \u003ci\u003eA Book of Burlesques\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotes on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaking a President\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Book of Calumny\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreatise on Right and Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e--but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSmart Set, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Evening Sun\u003c\/i\u003e) and some notes that were never previously published at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans--Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my title I revive the word chrestomathy in its true sense of 'a collection of choice passages from an author or authors, ' and ignore the late edition of 'especially one complied to assist in the acquirement of a language.' In the latter significance the term is often used by linguists, and some of the chrestomathies issued by them in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376123805919,"sku":"9780394752099","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OZPGYBAn849780394752099.webp?v=1789214250","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/a-mencken-chrestomathy-his-own-selection-of-his-choicest-writings-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}