Damning words : the life and religious times of H.L. Mencken / D.G. Hart.

Damning words : the life and religious times of H.L. Mencken / D.G. Hart.

9780802873446 hardcover
0802873448 hardcover

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.

©2016

English

xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

818.5209 M536h 2016

(OCoLC)946161217
(OCoLC)946161217

"H. L. Mencken (18801956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author -- and a famous American agnostic in the twentieth century. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken's life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken's relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Peppered with juicy quotes from Mencken's huge body of work, Damning Words superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and, at the same time, casts telling new light on the crucial period in which he lived." -- Amazon.com.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Library of religious biography.

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