“My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite.”
The main impression that arises from H. L. Mencken’s diaries is of the unlikelihood of their author as the leading American writer of his day. He was a man with no sympathy whatever for the national enterprise; in one typically dolorous entry, he says, “My grandfather, I believe, made a mistake when he came to […]
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