NOTES ON DEMOCRACY
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| General | ADVANCE PRAISE FOR NOTES ON DEMOCRACY: A NEW EDITION
"Notes on Democracy is the most artfully written and least well known of H.L. Mencken's many essays on democracy and its discontents. Now it's back in print after three decades of inexplicable unavailability, extensively annotated to make it more accessible to modern-day readers—and like so much of Mencken's writing, it turns out to be timelier than ever."
Terry Teachout, author of The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken
"Notes on Democracy is the most outrageous and politically incorrect of all of Mencken's major works. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers's introduction and notes are models of clarity and scholarship, providing exactly the sort of help that a reader needs to gain full appreciation of this trenchant work."
S.T. Joshi, editor of Mencken’s America
“Shall we make the world safe for democracy? To the contrary, argues H. L. Mencken, with characteristic wit and gusto. The world should be made safe from democracy!”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe author of Democracy: The God that Failed
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DEMOCRACY: THE FINAL SACRED COW TO
ROAST—SERVED UP WITH SAUCE AND RELISH
BY AMERICA’S GREATEST JOURNALIST AND WIT!
NOTES ON DEMOCRACY: A NEW EDITION
BY H.L. MENCKEN
AFTERWORD BY ANTHONY LEWIS
INTRODUCTION AND ANNOTATIONS BY
MARION ELIZABETH RODGERS
As Americans set about to choose a new president, some wonder what the point is. How much actual freedom exists? Are voters really qualified to decide the head of state? Who determines the issues debated? Is democracy really such an enlightened system of government?
Just 28 percent of respondents could name more than one of the five liberties granted by the First Amendment, a recent survey found. The same poll found nearly twice as many could name at least two members of The Simpsons. It’s interesting to note that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave has more prisoners than any other nation.
Is there anyone willing to question democracy’s wisdom and benevolence? Yes. A great voice from the past: H.L. Mencken, the famed iconoclast and cynic.
This October, Dissident Books will release NOTES ON DEMOCRACY: A NEW EDITION by H.L. Mencken. Long out of print, it’s a classic that tears apart a cherished and blindly worshiped institution with heretical glee. With his Ginsu-sharp insight, Mencken performs a brilliant, hilarious and timely vivisection on the body politic. Mencken spares no one. His scalpel cuts into left, right and most all of into voters, i.e., "The Eternal Mob."
With its War for Democracy, intrusive laws and fanatical fundamentalists, Mencken’s age was a lot like our own. Much of NOTES ON DEMOCRACY: A NEW EDITION reads as though it was written today. It is both a both timely and timeless masterpiece.
The new edition also includes an introduction and extensive annotations by noted Mencken-scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and an afterword by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis.
Don’t even think about voting until you read this book!
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was America's greatest journalist and wit. With his bristling, sardonic humor and unmatched erudition, he mercilessly attacked war hysteria, puritanism, and censorship. Mencken covered many of the great stories of the 20th century's first half, including the Scopes "Monkey" trial, Prohibition and the New Deal. Joseph Conrad said his words emitted a "crackle of blue sparks."
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers is the author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast, one of Booklist’s “Top Ten Biographies for 2005-2006,” named to Chicago Tribune’s Best of 2005 Nonfiction List, and a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography.
Anthony Lewis is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times columnist (1969-2001). His most recent book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.
TITLE: Notes on Democracy: A New Edition
RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-9773788-1-4
PRICE: $14.95 U.S. / $15.95 CAN
208 PAGES
Trim Size: 5½ x 8¼
DISTRIBUTION: Midpoint Trade Books, Baker & Taylor, Ingram
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I love this! It's so dark and far-out! Sort of like a Hanif Kureshi or Danny Boyle movie. It's great. And the music is pretty good too... Metal with a side order of punk. Or punk with a side order of metal. Mencken would've hated it! Or maybe not... Who knows?
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