Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English, known as the "Sage of Baltimore". One of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century, he produced dozens of books.Prejudices is a collection of some of the best essays he ever wrote and established the style that made him a titan of the free press. This book collects the first...