Notes on Democracy - H.L. Mencken Audiobook
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Notes on Democracy
By: H. L. Mencken
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-18-23
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publisher’s summary
Written during the 1920s, an era that reflects much of our modern times 100 years later, this book by culture critic and scholar Mencken dissects what democracy is.
The book’s three parts are “Democratic Man,” “The Democratic State” that includes a chapter on popular will and a chapter on politicians, and “Democracy and Liberty” with a section on corruption under democracy, followed by a “Coda” that discusses the future of democracy.
The author places politicians into two camps: the demagogue, who “preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots” and the demi-slave, “who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.” He depicts politicians as “men who have sold their honor for their jobs.”
Mencken, who covered the 1920s’ Scopes Trial, has been called one of America’s greatest journalists. Here, with his cynical humor, he skewers big government, Puritanism, and sanctimony.
Originally published in 1926.
Public Domain (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
January 11th, 2024
I remember reading this - or at least large sections of it - some time near the end of the last century and nodding sagely to myself about how much wiser and fairer the electorate are now than they were even a half century ago.
Oh how young I was, oh how naive.
January 11th, 2024
There are many wonderful works that came out of the interwar period. And what they were dealing with then, we are dealing with now.
January 11th, 2024
@userabuser
Whoops - spoke too soon.
It is stuck at 70.8% with no seed and 82 peers.
January 12th, 2024
@userabuser
Update a day later:
It is stuck at 82.3%, still showing no seed and 88 peers.
January 13th, 2024
JFC have you tried patience, its one of those old timey things that people forgot all about in this autistic perpetual instant gratification world.
January 13th, 2024
@derelict
The first update was to alert userabuser that there may be a problem with the seed. The second was to let people know that even with no seed showing, it was still trickling down.
chill
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