Notes on Democracy (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Softcover

Mencken, H L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1959891839 ISBN 13: 9781959891833

Publisher: Warbler Classics, 2023

Synopsis

Notes on Democracy by enormously influential journalist and cultural critic H. L. Mencken is an incisive and astonishingly timely critique of democracy. Mencken is not opposed to democracy but in his powerful, unabashed polemic, he calls out its inherent and unavoidable fragility. His bracing realism reminds us that naive faith in the inevitable triumph of democracy over all other forms of government is a dangerous delusion, and warns that democracy will not be saved by more democracy. In today's fraught political moment when democracies around the world are under threat from within and without, Mencken's book exposes some of the underlying tensions that must be understood by anyone committed to protecting democracy now and in the future.

Includes a noteworthy review of the original 1926 edition by Walter Lippmann, an afterword by Ulrich Baer, and a biographical timeline.

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About the Authors

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, critic, and satirist who shaped modern American fiction and public life. His broad-ranging articles were characterized by unexpected, deeply thoughtful, and provocative analysis and assertions.

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. He has written introductions to numerous classic works of literature and philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Warbler Classics
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1959891839
• ISBN 13: 9781959891833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142