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ON THE CONTRARY.('The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken')(Biography)

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| December 09, 2002 | Acocella, Joan | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications 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

From 1948, H. L. Mencken on Theodore Dreiser

Many preeminent writers of the early twentieth century held views that now seem to us deplorable. But what Edith Wharton thought about Jews, or Hemingway about women, was enfolded in acts of imagination. They were novelists. H. L. Mencken, on the other hand, was a journalist, and so his opinions stand naked before us: his condemnation of democracy, his admiration for Germany (he opposed American entry into both world wars), his loathing of all idealists and reformers, including those "professional kikes" who in the thirties went around complaining that Adolf Hitler wasn't being nice to the Jews. Mencken grew up at the ...

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