Nothing in H. L. Mencken's long career-during which he authored over thirty books, edited two national magazines, and regularly published a column in The Baltimore Sun -ignited his wrath as much as the sense that the complexity of American life was constricted by the spirit of puritanism. His notion of puritanism had little to do with the religious creed, and much more to do with a moral righteousness that he seemed to encounter at the base of American...
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