Smashing round in the China shop.

The New Leader | November 1, 2002| | Copyright

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken By Terry Teachout HarperCollins. 410 pp. $29.95.

The Skeptic is a judicious, lucidly written, sympathetically critical, and generally persuasive biography of the man Walter Lippmann described in 1926 as "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people." I don't suppose that even "educated people" read Mencken now. Still, he was an undaunted combatant in the cultural wars of American history and deserves to be celebrated.

I was among those who felt Mencken's influence. When I was 15 years ...

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