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Author:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, author.

Title:

A saturnalia of bunk : selections from The free lance, 1911-1915 / H. L. Mencken ; edited by S. T. Joshi.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxiii, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Political satire, American.

Other Authors:

Joshi, S. T., 1958- editor.

Other Titles:

Newspaper columns. Selections
Baltimore sun.

Notes:

Selected writings from the author's column, The free lance, published in The Baltimore sun, 1911-1915. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- On being a free lance -- The central questions of existence -- The follies of American government and society -- The Bozart -- Men, women, and the vote -- The bane of religion -- The vice crusade 1: general notes -- The vice crusade 2: Prohibition and other panaceas -- The vice crusade 3: prostitution -- Sundry forms of quackery -- The Great War.

ISBN:

0821422707
9780821422700

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959274947

LCCN:

2017018028

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)