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Damn! A Book of Calumny

by H.L Mencken

In Damn! A Book of Calumny, H.L. Mencken gives his opinion on a wide variety of subjects ranging from William Jennings Bryan, through Classical Music, to Zoos.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1918

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H.L Mencken

United States

As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,...

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