A Saturnalia of Bunk: Selections from The Free Lance 1911–1915 by H. L. Mencken (Review)

By Jeffrey Falk

Edited by S. T. Joshi
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017.
259 pp. $49.95 (hardcover).

H. L. Mencken was one of the most famous and stupendous American writers of the early 20th century. He is perhaps best known for his coverage of the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the “monkey trial,” and for his obituary of William Jennings Bryan, the original of which wa…