Title: The best of the many Mencken anthologies
Product review: Almost 700 pages in length, this book provides the reader with examples of Mencken's best writing from various times in his life and is far broader in scope than any other anthology published to date. Of particular interest are his columns written from Dayton, Tennessee during the Scopes Monkey Trial. An added treat is the foreward by Gore VidalSince writing this review, I have readH.L. Mencken on Religion, edited by S. T. Joshi. It is of the same high quality as this aqnthology. Additionally, after 50 years of looking, it provided me with the citation for Mencken's comment that the Ku Klux Klan was the secular arm of the Baptist and Methodist churches.
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