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Terry Teachout's The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken

Skeptics & Atheists

Probably no one laughed with more serene gusto at charlatans, quacks, fanatics and frauds than H.L. Mencken. I haven't read Terry Teachout's new Mencken biography, The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, just a few reviews. While very different these are the two best I've seen.

Jonathan Yardley in The Atlantic: Reading the prose of H. L. Mencken is one of the great joys that literacy bestows on the sentient

Christopher Hitchens in The New York Times: 'The Skeptic': Mencken, a Smart Set of One