This writer referred to "Boobus Americanus" and was cynical about democracy.
D.H. Lawrence
H.L. Mencken
Henry James
Upton Sinclair
Ring Lardner
H.L. Mencken.
Nietzschean iconoclast H.L. Mencken referred to "Boobus Americanus? and was cynical about American democracy. Born in Baltimore on September 12, 1880, Mencken won fame as a journalist with the Baltimore Morning Herald and Baltimore Sun, editor of The American Mercury magazine and as a literary critic. Very popular in the post-WWI period, Mencken?s literary criticism was instrumental in bringing writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Sherwood Anderson to the fore. Mencken died on January 29, 1956.
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