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  • Flipped Pages Books The Bathtub Hoax and other Blasts & Bravos by H. L. Mencken [1958 · 1st Ed.]
  • Flipped Pages Books The Bathtub Hoax and other Blasts & Bravos by H. L. Mencken [1958 · 1st Ed.]
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The Bathtub Hoax and other Blasts & Bravos

The Bathtub Hoax and other Blasts & Bravos

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Condition Notes: Cover shows moderate with sunned spine. Previous owners name written on front endpage. Some pages found with underlining.

Author(s): H.L. Mencken
Edition: 1st Edition

Publication year: 1958

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

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Published posthumously in 1958 by Alfred A. Knopf, this 286-page anthology compiles H.L. Mencken’s sharp, nationally syndicated columns written for the Chicago Tribune between 1924 and 1927. Edited and introduced by Robert McHugh, the volume is anchored by its legendary title essay—a mock-historical piece from 1917 detailing the fictional introduction of the bathtub to America, which uncritical public institutions and newspapers notoriously swallowed whole as fact for decades. Bound alongside this infamous prank are dozens of his characteristically cynical "Blasts and Bravos" targeted at American puritanism, political bureaucracy, religious fundamentalism, and the intellectual shortcomings of the average citizen. Written with the author's signature linguistic vitality and biting irony, this collection functions as a vital historical archive documenting the roaring public debates of the interwar era and the unvarnished skepticism that defined twentieth-century American literary journalism.


 

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