Mencken's America /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2004.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0821441760 9780821441763 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : On living in the United States
- The American : a treatise : The American ; The American : his morals ; The American : his language ; The American : his idea of beauty ; The American : his freedom ; The American : his new Puritanism
- The American landscape : Good old Baltimore ; Maryland : apex of normalcy ; The city of seven Sundays ; Along the Potomac ; San Francisco : a memory ; San Francisco ; New York
- American politics, morality, and religion : Meditation in E minor
- What ails the republic ; The American politician ; Religion in America : 1. Evangelical pastors ; 2. Church and state ; 3. The American religion ; The burden of credulity ; Notes on Negro strategy
- American art, literature, and culture : Puritanism as a literary force ; The American tradition ; The low-down on Hollywood ; Palmy days for authors
- Epilogue : Testament.