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Hal Crowther An Infuriating American (Paperback)
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- An Infuriating American
- Title
- An Infuriating American
- Subtitle
- The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken
- EAN
- 9781609382810
- ISBN
- 9781609382810
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 30/09/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 127mm
- Item Weight
- 300g
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- Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing
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- 9781609382810
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- An Infuriating American: the Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 127mm
- Number of Pages
- 92 Pages
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As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between the free press, the government, and the corporate plutocracy. Mencken, the belligerent newspaperman from Baltimore, was not only the most outspoken pundit of his day but also, by far, the most widely read, and according to many critics the most gifted American writer ever nurtured in a newsroom-a vanished world of typewriter banks and copy desks that electronic advances have precipitously erased. Nearly 60 years after his death, Mencken's memory and monumental verbal legacy rest largely in the hands of literary scholars and historians, to whom he will always be a curious figure, unchecked and alien and not a little distasteful. No faculty would have voted him tenure. Hal Crowther, who followed in many of Mencken's footsteps as a reporter, magazine editor, literary critic, and political columnist, focuses on Mencken the creator, the observer who turned his impressions and prejudices into an inimitable group portrait of America, painted in prose that charms and glowers and endures. Crowther, himself a working polemicist who was awarded the Baltimore Sun's Mencken prize for truculent commentary, examines the origin of Mencken's thunderbolts-where and how they were manufactured, rather than where and on whom they landed. Mencken was such an outrageous original that contemporary writers have made him a political shuttlecock, defaming or defending him according to modern conventions he never encountered. Crowther argues that loving or hating him, admiring or despising him, are scarcely relevant. Mencken can inspire and he can appall. The point is that he mattered, at one time enormously, and had a lasting effect on the national conversation. No writer can afford to ignore his craftsmanship or success, or fail to be fascinated by his strange mind and the world that produced it. This book is a tribute-though by no means a loving one-to a giant from one of his bastard sons.
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An Infuriating American: the Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken
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English
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Literature
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
92 Pages
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216mm
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127mm
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