Mencken

INTRODUCTION

HISTORIOGRAPHY

LANDMARKS

THEMES

I Bozarts
II Democracy and Its Discontents
III Faiths: Religious, Scientific and Other
IV Geography

ANNEXES

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

SHORT USEFUL BIOGRAPHIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

Mark Meigs est professeur à l'université Paris VII.

"Henry Louis Mencken's distinctive journalistic style still provokes belly laughs in his readers, but can style and belly laughs be made to reveal American culture and its history? He wrote, in the Baltimore Sun, about everything under the American sun, but for that reason his thought is sometimes shallow and contradictory. Together, however, that circus barker style with the broad subject matter, are unique to Mencken, his time and country and can illuminate the several intersecting paths taken by American culture in the first third of the Twentieth Century."