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Mencken's America

Mencken's America

Henry Louis Mencken

This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.
Mencken Chrestomathy

Mencken Chrestomathy

Henry Louis Mencken

The famous American journalist's selections from his writings reflect his witty interpretations of humanity, government, and a variety of other topics
H. L. Mencken on Religion

H. L. Mencken on Religion

Henry Louis Mencken

For everyone who values freethought and sharp intelligence, this collection of articles by America's premier iconoclast is a must.S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor whose previous books include Documents of American ...
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

Henry Louis Mencken

Intended as a "little handbook" for Americans interested in Shaw's work, this volume brings Mencken's good sense & probing criticism to bear on the playwright's work, & also presents for the reader Mencken's distillation of the criticism of ...
A Book of Burlesques

A Book of Burlesques

Henry Louis Mencken

The back parlor of any average American home.
H L Menckens Smart Set Crit

H L Menckens Smart Set Crit

Henry Louis Mencken

Essays discuss Emerson, Shaw, Twain and Joyce, as well as teetotalers, Christian Scientists, politics, music, and psychoanalysis
H.L. Mencken Revisited

H.L. Mencken Revisited

W. H. A. Williams

Ably fulfilling its goal of furnishing an intellectual biography and showing how Mencken's ideas developed and changed over time, the volume chronicles Mencken's vision of the artist-iconoclast, appraises his contributions to American ...
The American Scene

The American Scene

Henry Louis Mencken

MICHAEL PAUL ROGIN McCarthyism as Mass Politics Michael Paul Rogin's prize-winning study, The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter is an example of an extended essay in historical criticism. Its subject, the Wisconsin ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr: A Biography

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: A Biography

Meg Greene

This full-length biography explores the multifaceted—and altogether fascinating—life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. * A chronology of Henry Louis Gates's life * Photographs ...
Men Against the State

Men Against the State

James J[oseph] Martin

Included are letters and sketches by such associates and acquaintances as George Bernard Shaw, Henry L. Mencken, John William Lloyd, Ernest Armand, George E. MacDonald, Clarence Lee Swartz and Henry Meulen. 2. Tucker later ...
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Henry Louis Gates

A primer from one of America's most esteemed and popular intellectuals
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A scholarly primer by the Harvard University intellectual and author of the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey collects three decades of his writings in a range of fields, in a volume that also offers insight into his ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.
The Future of the Race

The Future of the Race

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"--New York Daily News "Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time."--New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
Black in Latin America

Black in Latin America

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out ...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet ...

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition.
Marketing/communications

Marketing/communications

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Annual Report - The General Society of Mechanics and ...

Annual Report - The General Society of Mechanics and ...

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York

... Masi Herman Farber Edward Feldman James Joseph Flanders William Louis Gaertner Frank Gill Louis Haberman Walter Christian Higgins George Hospodar Aaron Henry Irving Israel Albert Jenkins George Kanter Louis Kucich Joseph Mac  ...
John Henry; a folk-lore study

John Henry; a folk-lore study

Louis Watson Chappell

Includes several versions of the Afro-American folk-song on which the legend of John Henry is based.
African Americans in Downtown St. Louis

African Americans in Downtown St. Louis

John A. Wright Sr.

Since the founding of St. Louis in 1764, Downtown St. Louis has been a center of black cultural, economic, political, and legal achievements that have shaped not only the city of St. Louis, but the nation as well.
Catalog ...

Catalog ...

University of South Carolina

... John Monteith Baum, Gabriel Henry Beaty, Hugh Means Blanton, Albert Butt, William Melmond Coit, James Campbell Coker, Allen Mclver Cooper, Augustus Thomas Darby, Frank Russell Dargan, Louis Pegram Dibble, Louis Virgil, Jr., Dick, ...
Papers

Papers

Henry Clay

Allen, Henry Watkins, 34. 3. For Don Zenon Trudeau, lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana at St. Louis from 1792-99, see Conrad, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 6:219. To THOMAS HART CLAY Washington, April 21, 1852 I wrote ...
Proceedings

Proceedings

Missouri State Federation of Labor

Lanham of St. Louis, W. R. Stafford of Springfield, H. S. Kratzinger of Jefferson City, Ed. Leberman of St. Louis, H. E. ... T. J. Boyd of St. Louis, Charles M. Post of St. Louis, C. P. Curlis of Sedalia, Sam King of Springfield, Ed. Mullaly of Sedalia,  ...

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