On Politics: A Carnival of BuncombeWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy. With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy. These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun. |
Contents
A Carnival of Buncombe FEBRUARY 9 1920 | 7 |
The Clowns in the Ring MAY 12 1920 | 13 |
Campaign Notes SEPTEMBER 13 1920 | 22 |
In Praise of Gamaliel OCTOBER 18 1920 | 30 |
Optimistic Note NOVEMBER 29 1920 | 38 |
Gamalielese Again SEPTEMBER 9 1921 | 46 |
Making Ready for 1924 APRIL 2 1923 | 55 |
Calvinism | 64 |
Onward Christian Soldiers AUGUST 24 1928 | 181 |
The Campaign Opens AUGUST 27 1928 | 187 |
Der Wille Zur Macht SEPTEMBER 10 1928 | 196 |
Al in the Free State OCTOBER 29 1928 | 205 |
Autopsy NOVEMBER 12 1928 | 214 |
Roosevelt Minor | 224 |
Little Red Ridinghood DECEMBER 29 1930 | 232 |
Hoover in 1932 JULY 27 1931 | 242 |
The Impending Plebiscite остOBER 22 1923 | 72 |
PostMortem JULY 14 1924 | 81 |
Labor in Politics AUGUST 11 1924 | 90 |
Meditations on the Campaign AUGUST 25 1924 | 99 |
The Coolidge Buncombe остOBER 6 1924 | 108 |
The Voters Dilemma NOVEMBER 3 1924 | 117 |
Twilight остOBER 17 1927 | 126 |
The Coolidge Mystery JANUARY 30 1933 | 136 |
Al Smith and His Chances JULY 5 1927 | 144 |
Al APRIL 23 1928 | 153 |
Real Issues at Last JULY 23 1928 | 162 |
Al and the Pastors AUGUST 6 1928 | 171 |
The Men Who Rule Us остOBER 5 1931 | 252 |
Where Are We At? JULY 5 1932 | 262 |
PreMortem OCTOBER 24 1932 | 271 |
The Tune Changes MARCH 27 1933 | 281 |
Roosevelt JANUARY 2 1934 | 291 |
The Burden of OmnipotenceRoosevelt Alf | 297 |
The More Abundant Dialectic APRIL 20 1936 | 310 |
After the New Deal SEPTEMBER 28 1936 | 324 |
Coroners Inquest NOVEMBER 9 1936 | 338 |
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