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"The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition."-Alistair Cooke Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and hit movie. Mencken's no-nonsense sensibility is still exciting: his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama; his piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; his ferocious take on the fundamentalist culture surrounding it all-including a raucous midnight trip into the woods to witness a secret "holy roller" service. Shockingly, these reports have never been gathered together into a book of their own-until now. A Religious Orgy in Tennessee includes all of Mencken's reports for The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, and The American Mercury. It even includes his coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial-an obituary so withering Mencken was forced to rewrite it (both versions are included, although the rewrite seems, if anything, even less forgiving). With the rise of "intelligent design," Mencken's work has never seemed more unnervingly timely-or timeless.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History

• Pełny tytuł: Religious Orgy in Tennessee
• Autor: H. L. Mencken
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 206
• EAN: 9781933633176
• ISBN: 1933633174
• ID: 05033181
• Wydawca: Melville House Publishing
• Waga: 277 g
• Wymiary: 192 × 143 × 17 mm
• Data wydania: 31. August 2006

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