- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- 20 THE DRY MILLENNIUM DAWNS
- 21 OF POLITICS AND PROSE
- 22 THAT MAN IN BALTIMORE
- 23 THE DUEL OF SEX
- 24 OLD DISCORD AND NEW ALLIANCES
- 25 THE SCOPES TRIAL
- 26 IN THE CRUCIBLE
- 27 BANNED IN BOSTON
- 28 THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- 29 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
- 30 THE GERMAN VALENTINO
- 31 THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
- 32 VARIATIONS ON A FAMILIAR THEME
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- Chapter:
- (p.306) 28 THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- Source:
- Mencken
- Author(s):
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In 1926, Mencken was at the zenith of his popularity. Walter Lippmann called him “the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people”. This chapter analyzes Mencken's celebrity: his popularity among college students and writers, both in the United States and overseas. Ironically, for all of his popularity, a deep well of loneliness gripped him. Mencken met Hollywood actress Aileen Pringle, and began a passionate love affair.
Keywords: celebrity, Walter Lippmann, Aileen Pringle, Joseph Hergesheimer, Sherwood Anderson, Notes on Democracy
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- 20 THE DRY MILLENNIUM DAWNS
- 21 OF POLITICS AND PROSE
- 22 THAT MAN IN BALTIMORE
- 23 THE DUEL OF SEX
- 24 OLD DISCORD AND NEW ALLIANCES
- 25 THE SCOPES TRIAL
- 26 IN THE CRUCIBLE
- 27 BANNED IN BOSTON
- 28 THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- 29 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
- 30 THE GERMAN VALENTINO
- 31 THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
- 32 VARIATIONS ON A FAMILIAR THEME
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX