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Mencken Portrait and the Mercury era of reformers
A compact overview of H L Mencken's personality and his Mercury era. The piece recalls his sharp political wit and resistance to reformers, touching on him as a skeptic of administrations and his clash with Prohibition and academia. It contrasts his blunt realism with the era's shifting governance under Roosevelt.
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Paul Weinstein
Mencken
HL. Mencken
American Mercury
Mencken-Mercury
The
Mercury
Ralph Nader
Naders
Theabel
Rascal
John M. Harrison
School of Journalism
Mancker
George Jean Nathan
United States
Beck
Jay Mencken
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Mperial Tang
Harding
Gama
Freud
Elgar
Clolo‘ad
Mancken
Baltimore
Franklin Roosevelt
Hoover