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Narrado por:
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Grover Gardner
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H. L. Mencken
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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 never previously published at all.
Listeners will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans - Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman.
Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.
©1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1932, 1934, 1942, 1949 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (P)2020 Blackstone PublishingLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.
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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- De: Henry Louis Mencken
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Mention the name of Friedrich Nietzsche almost anywhere and you are apt to receive a strong emotional response, either negatively or positively. Few persons will say they have no opinion. And for good reason. Employing some of the most withering attacks and scathing criticism conceivable against, among other things, Christianity, education, government, Wagner, and the judicial systems of his day, Nietzsche was a one-man wrecking ball of European society in the latter half of the 19th century.
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strenuous
- De Tim en 12-12-09
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Pax
- War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 246
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The Pax Romana has long been shorthand for the empire’s golden age. Stretching from Caledonia to Arabia, Rome ruled over a quarter of the world’s population. It was the wealthiest and most formidable state in the history of humankind. Pax is a captivating narrative history of Rome at the height of its power. From the gilded capital to realms beyond the frontier, historian Tom Holland shows ancient Rome in all its glory
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Mic en 09-27-23
De: Tom Holland
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Mencken Chrestomathy
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- N. Martin
- 06-24-22
Sensational Mencken
Amid the present cacophony there is no Mencken to be found; not even close. So it is with immense pleasure that one rereads, and in this case listens, to Mencken’s uncensored ideas conveyed in his glistening and unequaled use of American English. Gardner makes the text his own, as always. My lone complaint is that on the Apple Watch the chapters are displayed only numerically, and so it is difficult to figure out how to get back to a particular chapter.
Starting next with Mencken’s Notes on Democracy, I’d be a happy cherub if the complete works of H. L., Thomas Szasz, and Richard Mitchell were reproduced in audio.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- David Trindle
- 09-13-22
Not Mencken’s best work
The sections in the first half of this recording are pretty good.
The second half of the recording is far from Meghan‘s best work. It is biased, negative, critical, bigoted,And, worst of all not entertaining.
This Compilation needs a good editor
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Zachary Martin
- 06-05-21
His own selection of his writings.
Funnier, wiser, smarter than any satirist today. Ranks with Swift and Voltaire. For anyone like me who can get filled with misanthropic despair over current events in our republic, his writings are a helpful reminder that things were worse, much worse, 100 years ago. And that amusement is the only useful, intelligent response to the dreadful, moronic antics of the horrible human race.
And to celebrate intelligence, beauty, and nobility, what precious little of it exists in this world, as a rare gift.
Finally, Grover Gardner is simply perfect. I will always in the future read Mencken with his voice in my head.
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- eL Tedo
- 08-19-21
Thank you Audible for bringing this to you library
The greatest book of all time read by the greatest voice of all time. Does it get any better than this?
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