The Boston Globe, May 1st, 1994
MENCKEN A Biography By Fred Hobson. Random House. 626 pp. $35. Martin F. Nolan, an associate editor of the Globe, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He never went to college. A cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling provincial, he shunned New York's literary-social scene for the Friday night train to Baltimore and "was not given to introspection and confession." Nearly every one of his millions of paragraphs contained something that somebody would call insensitive today. According to this newest and best biography of H. L. Mencken, he was "indeed a phenomenon. Perhaps for the ...
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