Mencken Chrestomathy

Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques , In Defense of Women , Notes on Democracy , Making a President , A Book of Calumny , Treatise on Right and Wrong —but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the  American Mercury , the  Smart Set,  and the  Baltimore Evening Sun ) and some notes that were n