A Man Amongst Boobs: H.L. Mencken’s Critique of the “New America”
28 Mar 2021 9 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
If there is one cultural critic that was able to capture early 20th-century America’s structure of feeling, H.L. Mencken is it. His iconoclastic, skeptical, caustic, and pessimistic critiques probed into the everyday life of the emerging middle class...