Discovered among H L Mencken's private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this chrestomathy contains writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and brethren of the cloth.

Discovered among H. L. Mencken's private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this collection is full of the iconoclastic common sense that marked H. L. Mencken's astonishing career as the premier American social critic of the twentieth century. Gathered by Mencken himself before his death in 1956, this chrestomathy ("a collection of literary passages") contains writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and brethren of the cloth.