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Bitter Sage.(The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken)(Book Review)

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| November 25, 2002 | BROOKHISER, RICHARD | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, by Terry Teachout (HarperCollins, 432 pp., $29.95)

In a hotel in upstate New York that I love, dating from the century before last, there is a hallway hung with photographs of the famous guests of the past. All are Anglo-Saxon men; most wear beards. One is a president (Hayes), one an industrialist (Carnegie), one a naturalist (William Burroughs). The majority are Protestant clergymen. They came to the hotel to discuss international arbitration and the treatment of Indians, and to commune with nature. They are dead, as we all shall be soon enough. More, they are gone: wiped from memory, almost from history. As far as the ...

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