Prejudices, Second Series

Read by Jim Locke

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)

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queue_music Chapters 37

1 01 - Prophets and their Visions 9:57
2 02 - The Answering Fact 7:04
3 03 - The Ashes of New England 10:48
4 04 - The Ferment Undergound 9:38
5 05 - In the Literary Abattoire 11:34
6 06 - Underlying Causes 21:28
7 07 - The Lonesome Artist 15:20
8 08 - The Cultural Background 20:11
9 09 - Under the Campus Pump 13:36
10 10 - The Intolerable Burden 16:34
11 11 - Epilogue 5:13
12 12 - Roosevelt: An Autopsy 47:31
13 13 - The Sahara of the Bozart 27:17
14 14 - The Divine Afflatus 23:38
15 15 - Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue 11:23
16 16 - Exeunt Omnes 20:18
17 17 - On Music-Lovers 4:21
18 18 - Opera 6:17
19 19 - The Music of To-morrow 4:44
20 20 - Tempo di Valse 3:18
21 21 - The Puritan as Artist 1:34
22 22 - The Human Face 3:22
23 23 - The Cerebral Mime 3:48
24 24 - The Cult of Hope 10:33
25 25 - The Holy War 5:19
26 26 - The Lure of Babylon 4:18
27 27 - Cupid and Well-Water 2:11
28 28 - The Triumph of Idealism 2:52
29 29 - The Nature of Love 9:51
30 30 - The Incomparable Buzzsaw 3:04
31 31 - Women as Spectacles 3:15
32 32 - Woman and the Artist 5:48
33 33 - Martyrs 1:42
34 34 - The Burnt Child 0:50
35 35 - The Supreme Comedy 1:31
36 36 - A Hidden Cause 0:52
37 37 - Bad Workmanship 5:34