Menckeniana This Fall
In September, Dissident Books is bringing out a new edition of Mencken’s classic Notes on Democracy:
H. L. Mencken, America’s greatest journalist and critic, wrote Notes on Democracy more than eighty years ago. His era—the years of World War I, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial—was strikingly like our own. Notes isn’t just a provocative and funny blast from the past, but also a perceptive and unsentimental report on contemporary life.
In time for the 2008 presidential race, Dissident Books will reintroduce readers to this gem of cynicism and clear thinking. Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers’s introduction and annotations put Mencken’s words in context and expose fascinating details and nuances. The new edition also includes an afterword by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis.
And on November 21, I’m tentatively scheduled to give a talk on Mencken and the Old Right at a meeting (in Mencken’s native Baltimore, appropriately enough) of a new conservative/libertarian organization named for the man himself, the H.L. Mencken Club. More details on that in a few weeks.
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