H. L. Mencken

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01/11/2016 H. L. Mencken

This book should come with a warning label. It is surely one of the most bracing books on politics in the history of the English language. There is more truth in these pages than most Americans are willing to face. What Mencken delivers here is

The Declaration of Independence in American

07/01/2000 Free Market H. L. Mencken

The Free Market 18, no. 5 (May 2000) [Editorial note: H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) wrote this translation in the days during and after World War I. Woodrow Wilson’s wartime central planning, which led to...

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