Mencken’s Baltimore
Two pieces about H.L. Mencken’s Baltimore: the first a reflection for Liberty Magazine (scroll down to read); the second a full article for The Weekly Standard, which I’ll reproduce below.
Mencken Slept Here
Has Baltimore forgotten the Sage of Baltimore?
08/06/2007, Volume 012, Issue 44
For the first half of the 20th century, an ordinary row house in a quiet Baltimore neighborhood was the castle of American intellectual culture. From its book-lined second-story office, the man on the throne canonized F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce, paralyzed perceptions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, swayed Clarence Darrow to the defense of a young biology teacher, and clanged out more than 10 million of the juiciest words to pass through an American typewriter.
At 1524 Hollins Street, H.L. Mencken commanded the thunder and lightning of his era.
