OF POLITICS AND PROSE
OF POLITICS AND PROSE
With Mencken's acerbic column and a new staff, the Baltimore Sun becomes a leading chronicler of national news. Mencken took great pleasure in covering politics, but his reputation as a catalyst in American letters also rose in stature as The American Language became a bestseller. With Prejudices: Second Series, Mencken became the instigator of the Southern renaissance. Black intellectuals, among them James Weldon Johnson and W. E. B. Du Bois welcomed Mencken as an important force in the Harlem renaissance. However, just as Mencken was being hailed as a major influence on a new generation of American writers, his old mentor, James Huneker, died.
Keywords: Prejudices, The Sahara of the Bozart, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sinclair Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, The American Language, James Huneker
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