Prejudices, Second Series

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Satire

Authors: H. L. Mencken In Year : 1921

Book Language: English

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Prophets and their Visions
The Answering Fact
The Ashes of New England
The Ferment Undergound
In the Literary Abattoire
Underlying Causes
The Lonesome Artist
The Cultural Background
Under the Campus Pump
The Intolerable Burden
Epilogue
Roosevelt: An Autopsy
The Sahara of the Bozart
The Divine Afflatus
Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue
Exeunt Omnes
On Music-Lovers
Opera
The Music of To-morrow
Tempo di Valse
The Puritan as Artist
The Human Face
The Cerebral Mime
The Cult of Hope
The Holy War
The Lure of Babylon
Cupid and Well-Water
The Triumph of Idealism
The Nature of Love
The Incomparable Buzzsaw
Women as Spectacles
Woman and the Artist
Martyrs
The Burnt Child
The Supreme Comedy
A Hidden Cause
Bad Workmanship

Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure up. Here one sees in the Second Series that his focus is on the lack of real artistry and broad humanity in American art and society and on the failures of such fanatical crusades as Prohibition and finally on a more humorous note on the absurd habits of mating between the sexes. (Summary by Jim Locke)