- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- 1 THE CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE
- 2 THE ETERNAL BOY
- 3 AUGUST MENCKEN & BRO.
- 4 BALTIMORE AND BEYOND
- 5 TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- 6 PLAYS AND PLAYERS
- 7 THE GREAT BALTIMORE FIRE
- 8 A MAN OF ABILITY
- 9 A YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
- 10 BROADENING HORIZONS
- 11 THE BAD BOY OF BALTIMORE
- 12 OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
BROADENING HORIZONS
BROADENING HORIZONS
- Chapter:
- (p.113) 10 BROADENING HORIZONS
- Source:
- Mencken
- Author(s):
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In 1908, Mencken was asked to become the new literary critic of The Smart Set magazine. Over the next fifteen years, Mencken would write 182 essays in which he reviewed some 2,000 books. The Smart Set gave Mencken a national venue to express his controversial views on American literature. He also met George Jean Nathan, a theater critic, and the two became fast friends. Mencken worked on his fourth book, Men Versus the Man, where he presents his views on individualism, Social Darwinism, and race.
Keywords: The Smart Set, literature, George Jean Nathan, Men Versus the Man, Social Darwinism
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- 1 THE CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE
- 2 THE ETERNAL BOY
- 3 AUGUST MENCKEN & BRO.
- 4 BALTIMORE AND BEYOND
- 5 TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- 6 PLAYS AND PLAYERS
- 7 THE GREAT BALTIMORE FIRE
- 8 A MAN OF ABILITY
- 9 A YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
- 10 BROADENING HORIZONS
- 11 THE BAD BOY OF BALTIMORE
- 12 OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX