Prejudices, Second Series

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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)

Genre(s): Satire

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Prophets and their Visions Jim Locke
00:09:57
Play 02 The Answering Fact Jim Locke
00:07:04
Play 03 The Ashes of New England Jim Locke
00:10:48
Play 04 The Ferment Undergound Jim Locke
00:09:38
Play 05 In the Literary Abattoire Jim Locke
00:11:34
Play 06 Underlying Causes Jim Locke
00:21:28
Play 07 The Lonesome Artist Jim Locke
00:15:20
Play 08 The Cultural Background Jim Locke
00:20:11
Play 09 Under the Campus Pump Jim Locke
00:13:36
Play 10 The Intolerable Burden Jim Locke
00:16:34
Play 11 Epilogue Jim Locke
00:05:13
Play 12 Roosevelt: An Autopsy Jim Locke
00:47:31
Play 13 The Sahara of the Bozart Jim Locke
00:27:17
Play 14 The Divine Afflatus Jim Locke
00:23:38
Play 15 Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue Jim Locke
00:11:23
Play 16 Exeunt Omnes Jim Locke
00:20:18
Play 17 On Music-Lovers Jim Locke
00:04:21
Play 18 Opera Jim Locke
00:06:17
Play 19 The Music of To-morrow Jim Locke
00:04:44
Play 20 Tempo di Valse Jim Locke
00:03:18
Play 21 The Puritan as Artist Jim Locke
00:01:34
Play 22 The Human Face Jim Locke
00:03:22
Play 23 The Cerebral Mime Jim Locke
00:03:48
Play 24 The Cult of Hope Jim Locke
00:10:33
Play 25 The Holy War Jim Locke
00:05:19
Play 26 The Lure of Babylon Jim Locke
00:04:18
Play 27 Cupid and Well-Water Jim Locke
00:02:11
Play 28 The Triumph of Idealism Jim Locke
00:02:52
Play 29 The Nature of Love Jim Locke
00:09:51
Play 30 The Incomparable Buzzsaw Jim Locke
00:03:04
Play 31 Women as Spectacles Jim Locke
00:03:15
Play 32 Woman and the Artist Jim Locke
00:05:48
Play 33 Martyrs Jim Locke
00:01:42
Play 34 The Burnt Child Jim Locke
00:00:50
Play 35 The Supreme Comedy Jim Locke
00:01:31
Play 36 A Hidden Cause Jim Locke
00:00:52
Play 37 Bad Workmanship Jim Locke
00:05:34