Prejudices, Second Series
H. L. Mencken
Read by Jim Locke
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure up. Here one sees in the Second Series that his focus is on the lack of real artistry and broad humanity in American art and society and on the failures of such fanatical crusades as Prohibition and finally on a more humorous note on the absurd habits of mating between the sexes. (Summary by Jim Locke) (5 hr 56 min)
Chapters
Prophets and their Visions | 9:57 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Answering Fact | 7:04 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Ashes of New England | 10:48 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Ferment Undergound | 9:38 | Read by Jim Locke |
In the Literary Abattoire | 11:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
Underlying Causes | 21:28 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Lonesome Artist | 15:20 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Cultural Background | 20:11 | Read by Jim Locke |
Under the Campus Pump | 13:36 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Intolerable Burden | 16:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
Epilogue | 5:13 | Read by Jim Locke |
Roosevelt: An Autopsy | 47:31 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Sahara of the Bozart | 27:17 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Divine Afflatus | 23:38 | Read by Jim Locke |
Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue | 11:23 | Read by Jim Locke |
Exeunt Omnes | 20:18 | Read by Jim Locke |
On Music-Lovers | 4:21 | Read by Jim Locke |
Opera | 6:17 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Music of To-morrow | 4:44 | Read by Jim Locke |
Tempo di Valse | 3:18 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Puritan as Artist | 1:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Human Face | 3:22 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Cerebral Mime | 3:48 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Cult of Hope | 10:33 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Holy War | 5:19 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Lure of Babylon | 4:18 | Read by Jim Locke |
Cupid and Well-Water | 2:11 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Triumph of Idealism | 2:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Nature of Love | 9:51 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Incomparable Buzzsaw | 3:04 | Read by Jim Locke |
Women as Spectacles | 3:15 | Read by Jim Locke |
Woman and the Artist | 5:48 | Read by Jim Locke |
Martyrs | 1:42 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Burnt Child | 0:50 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Supreme Comedy | 1:31 | Read by Jim Locke |
A Hidden Cause | 0:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
Bad Workmanship | 5:34 | Read by Jim Locke |