An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken

by Hal Crowther

As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between the free press, the government, and the corporate plutocracy. Mencken, the belligerent newspaperman from Baltimore, was not only the most outspoken...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609382811
• ISBN13: 9781609382810
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"