Notes on Democracy: A New Edition
by H.L. Mencken
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Afterword by Anthony Lewis
Introduction and Annotations by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
The perfect anecdote to hackneyed, self-congratulatory, and mindless paeans to democracy. Don't even think about voting until you read this book!
“Notes on Democracy is the most artfully written and least well known of H. L. Mencken's many essays on democracy and its discontents. Now it's back in print after three decades of inexplicable unavailability, extensively annotated to make it more accessible to modern-day readers—and like so much of Mencken's writing, it turns out to be timelier than ever.”
—Terry Teachout, author of The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken