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Books by H. L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe /
The American Language /
In Defense of Women /
Prejudices: A Selection /
Smart Set Criticism
Happy Days: Autobiography, 1880-1892 /
Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir /
Heathen Days: 1890-1936 /
Letters of H.L. Mencken
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The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s
(Charles Scruggs)
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Letters
of H. L. Mencken on
(or) to George S. Schuyler, James Weldon Johnson Walter
White, NAACP, Countee Cullen, Eugene O'Neill
To James Weldon Johnson
Baltimore, July 29, 1919
Dear Mr. Johnson:
Have you anywhere in your files an estimate
of the total wealth of the Negroes of the United States—that
is, on the same basis that national wealth is reckoned? I have
seen something of the sort, but I don't know where. They
probably own at least a billion of property. Here in Maryland
they have got very rich.
Your
prophecies of serious race conflicts begin to come true. I hope
you let me see what you write about the Washington affair. I
hear that the same sort of thing was very narrowly averted in
Richmond. My guess is that Baltimore will be the last city to
see anything of the sort. Despite a segregation ordinance, there
is less race feeling here than anywhere else I know of. We have
had but one race riot in years, and that was between Poles and
Jews.
Sincerely
yours
[H.L.
Mencken]
[Notes: James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938): author, secretary of the NAACP, and poet. —
The Washington affair: a few days before, there had been race
riots in Washington, D.C., in which white soldiers and sailors
fought with Negroes. The casualties had run high, and a rumor
had spread that martial law would be decreed.]
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To
Walter White
[Baltimore?]
March
13, 1922
Dear
Mr. White:
This
play looks to me to be hopeless. The long speeches in the first
episode would drive an audience out of the theatre and the
climax at the end of the last episode would make it laugh. The
suggestion of the minstrel show show is far too insidious to be
resisted. Moreover, I doubt that the fundamental idea is
plausible. That is to say, no such thing has ever happened nor
could it conceivably happen. In fiction, it is not sufficient
merely to convince the reader that an episode is possible, it is
also necessary to convince him that it is probable. He will
believe a story on the front page of a newspaper that would make
him laugh even in the Argosy Magazine.
Let
me see the other pieces that you have in mind. After you have
finished half a dozen of them, you may fin a way to go back to
this one and save it.
Sincerely
yours,
[H.L.
Mencken
[Walter
F. White (1893-1955): The Negro author and leader.]
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To
Alfred A. Knopf
H.L.
Mencken
1524
Hollins Street
Baltimore
November
17th [1924]
Dear
Alfred:-
1.
I forgot to tell you that James Weldon Johnson, the chief man in
the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is
preparing to write his reminiscences. He has had a very
remarkable career and writes very well. You will get the book
automatically. I may be able to use parts of it in The
American Mercury.
M
[H.L.
—Mencken]
[James
Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) wrote two volumes of reminiscences: The
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, published in Boston by
Sherman, French and Co. in 1912, then in New York by Alfred A.
Knopf in 1927; and Along This Way (New York: The Viking
Press; 1933). This probably refers to the second edition of the
first book.]
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To
Carl Van Vechten
H.L. Mencken
1524 Hollins St.
Baltimore
October 10th [1925]
Dear
Carl:-
The
Widow Saltus' book is a horrible thing. Coming so soon after
Mrs. Arnold Bennett's exposure of Bennett, it makes me thank God
that I married an illiterate colored woman, who doesn't know
what my trade is, and never wants to meet and scare my friends.
I am reviewing it for the Tribune syndicate next Sunday. As you
know, I put Saltus himself lower than you do. Lately I reread
five or six of his books. All save "Imperial Purple"
seemed amateurish to me. Did you ever know, by the way, that
"Imperial Purple" inspired "Heliogabalus"? A
curious bibliographical detail.
I'll
believe in Johnson's article on jazz when I see it. He promised
it to me in the Autumn of 1893.
Yours,
Mencken
[The
Widow Saltus's book: Edgar Saltus, the Man by Marie
Saltus (Chicago: Pascal Covivi; 1925. — Johnson: James Weldon
Johnson]
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To
Hamilton Owens
Baltimore,
April 25, 1926
Dear
Hamilton:
here
is a chance for the Free State Association to function. The City
Club swine invited Countée Cullen to their party, and then
stood by without a protest when he was kicked out of the
Emerson. I am informed that he did not come to eat with them,
but simply to talk to them.
That
the Emerson has a rule forbidding coons to talk in the
hotel is outrageous. It would be hard to match it in
Mississippi. Moreover, the City Club cads, knowing very well
that Cullen was a coon, should have looked into the matter at
length before inviting him. The net effect of their poltroonry
was that their guest was insulted, and Maryland was made
ridiculous. I hope to lambast them, and make a big case of it. I
called up the Sun today and gave the city desk some information
that I had. this morning's story was very feeble.
It
was a great party last night. I have consumed two whole cans of
bicarbonnate since breakfast, and feel like a yearling stallion.
I am off to N.Y.
Yours,
M
[Hamilton
Owens (born in 1888): the editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun.
— The Baltimore City Club is now extinct. The Emerson is a
Baltimore hotel. — Countée Cullen: the Negro poet.]
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To George S. Schuyler
The American Mercury
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
October 11, 1927
Dear Mr. Schuyler:
Thanks very much for your good offices in the
matter of the "Tips" article. Naturally, I'd much
prefer to have you go over it. The one thing I want to keep out
is ranting against the tipping system. What I am interested in
is not its evils, but its technique. Certainly, an old hand must
know many dodges for squeezing money out of suckers. It seems to
me that getting it in this way is quite as honest and decent as
getting it say, by serving in Congress, or preaching the Word of
God. If your candidate fails, I'll certainly turn to Mr. Lewis.
My very best thanks again.
Unluckily I fear to do an article on the
A.M.E. Church. During 1926 I devoted the magazine very largely
to religious follies, and I have a feeling that I probably
exhausted the interest of its readers in that subject. For that
reason I have been avoiding it this year. maybe I'll go back to
it later on.
Sincerely yours,
H.L. Mencken
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To George S. Schuyler
The American Mercury
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
October 19th [1927]
Dear Mr. Schuyler:-
I am sorry indeed that you put in any work on
this, for I fear it won't do as it stands. The introduction is
rather too long and obvious, and there are too few illuminative
anecdotes. It would be better, indeed, if it started with an
anecdote. The reference to Terre Haute, again, might be
developed into an amusing discussion of regional liberality. In
brief, the thing shows some good material, but it jogs a bit,
and so is not effective. I scarcely know whether to advise
reworking it or scrapping it. And I am sorry that I put you to
trouble about it.
I discover that the clipping bureaux do not
clip the Negro papers. This seems astounding. But it offers a
good chance to set up a Negro clipping bureau. If you know
anyone who wants to make the venture tell him I'd like to be his
first customer.
Sincerely yours,
H. L. Mencken
"Our White Folks" will lead the December number.
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To George S. Schuyler
Baltimore,
August 15th, 1928
It seems to me that this piece is full of
holes. Furthermore, I believe that the fundamental scheme of it
is wrong. Why start with the argument that there is no sexual
antipathy between the races? The fact is known to everyone. It
seems to me that the whole article should be based on a study of
actual interracial couples and that you ought to go into the
matter further than you have. That is to say, you ought to
examine a number of such couples at length and find out
precisely why they were married, what difficulties they
encountered and how they are getting on now. As it is, you
generalize without sufficient data and so the whole thing
becomes a bit literary and dubious.
You also introduce a number of irrelevancies,
including a reference to such men as Dumas. I don't think the
subject has anything to do with your main theme.
Let us have a session the next time I am in
New York. Just when that will be I don't know. Hay fever has
begun to tease me and travel is painful. But I'll certainly be
there again before the middle of September. I believe a detailed
study of mixed couples would be really valuable. can't you do it
by correspondence? Certainly it ought to be easy to get into
contact with forty or fifty of them.
Have you any other ideas?
Sincerely yours,
H.L. Mencken
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To George S. Schuyler
The American Mercury
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
May 15 [1929]
Dear Mr. Schuyler:
I think your questionnaire would make an
excellent article, and what you say about the future of the
Negro would make an even better one. On the latter subject, an
immense amount of bilge is being written. the plain fact is that
neither the whites nor the black know where they are heading. I
have read as much about the matter as most men and yet I can
never formulate a plausible picture of the relation of the races
say fifty years hence. if you care to deal with the subject
realistically, I'll certainly be delighted to do the article.
My best thanks for your help in the matter of
the Northwestern questionnaire. if you can find it, I'll be
delighted to have it.
Sincerely yours,
H.L. Mencken
[The questionnaire was sent
out by George Schuyler to get data for a piece he was writing on
Racial Intermarriage in the U.S. G. Schuyler wrote "A Negro
Looks Ahead" for the February 1930 Mercury.]
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To George S. Schuyler
H.L. Mencken
704 Cathedral St.
Baltimore
June 15, 1931
Dear Mr. Schuyler:
Needless to say,
that story is a lie out of the whole cloth. I was never in
Norwich, Connecticut, in my life, and I haven't delivered a
lecture for at least twenty years. Such fictions are constantly
in circulations. I suspect that the report that I have turned Ku
Kluxer emanates from a certain gentleman in Baltimore. I don't
think he is important enough to get any notice.
Last week Floyd
Calvin telegraphed to me asking for an expression of my opinion
on the crusade against Amos and Andy. I told him what I have
been preaching for years past—that
all such crusades seem to me to be ill-advised and dangerous. I
can imagine nothing more tedious than the Amos and Andy
dialogues, but I certainly see nothing libelous in them. Such
Negroes as they depict are in common as flies. I think the Negro
people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable
ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts
to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.
The
Jews have been greatly damaged in America by professional
agitators, and I am afraid that if Amos and Andy crusade goes on
the Negroes will suffer in the same way.. Worse, they will in
vain, for I believe it will be completely impossible to stop the
Amos and Andy show. In brief, the net result promises to be that
the race will be made ten times as ridiculous by its own efforts
as it is now made by Amos and Andy.
What
are you up to? I read in the Pittsburgh Courier that you
were ill. I surely hope that you are completely recovered, and
that some good ideas are entailing you.
Sincerely
yours,
H.L.
Mencken
[Charges
of racism have been made against H.L. Mencken at various times,
a debate on the question was held in the columns of the New
Republic and the London Times Literary Supplement in 1957
and 1958.]
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To George S. Schuyler
The American Mercury
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
October 5, 1932
Dear Mr. Schuyler:
Here again, it seems to me you spoil a good
story by showing too much indignation. The missionaries are
depicted with such hostility that in most cases they become mere
caricatures. Thus the general effect of the article is
considerably diminished, and I find myself hesitating to take
it. In such writing, it seems to me that the really effective
weapons is irony. the moment you begin to show indignation you
weaken your whole case.
Sincerely yours,
H. L. Mencken
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To George S. Schuyler
H.L. Mencken
704 Cathedral St.
Baltimore
May 7, 1935
As usual, you blow the quacks 10,000 feet
into the air. However, I am not too sure that you have butchered
them. The scheme to set up a separate State is so magnificently
idiotic that it is bound to win customers. My belief is that the
Negro wizards of the past, like the whites, have always made the
mistake of underestimating the imbecility of their customers.
The great masses of the plain people are much dumber than even
politicians have ever suspected.
I have been reading with great interest and
pleasure your articles in the Courier on your Southern
tour. In particular, I have been cheered by your reports from
Mississippi. Nevertheless, I continue to believe that it will
take 200 earthquakes, 50 foreign invasions and the second coming
of the Twelve Apostles to lift up that sorry state to the level
even of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Sincerely yours,
H. L. Mencken
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To Blanche Knopf
H.L. Mencken
1524 Hollins St.
Baltimore
July 7, 1937
Dear Blanche:
God knows I wish I could drop in on you at
Pocasset, but I fear it will be impossible before August 6th.
Some time ago I rashly undertook to do a series of articles on
the Johns Hopkins Hospital for the Sun. The job looked
easy, but now that I am in it I find that it is full of grief.
The amount of stuff I am writing is not large, but getting the
material for it involves making a great many visits to the
hospital to consult the various chiropractors. When I finish the
job I'll know more about the place than anybody in it.
There is an excellent book in George S.
Schuyler, the colored author who used to write in the American
Mercury. Schuyler is the best writer the Negroes have ever
produced, and moreover, he is a highly intelligent man. If you
could induce him to do a frank book on the present situation of
his people in this country it would probably make a sensation.
He loves to tell the truth, and the truth in this case is full
of surprises. He is the bitter enemy of all the uplifters who
presume to uplift the darker races. Some time when I am in New
York we must get hold of him and talk the thing out with him. I
really believe that he could give you something extraordinary.
Yours,
H.L.M.
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To George S. Schuyler
H.L. Mencken
1524 Hollins St.
Baltimore
May 10, 1939
Dear Mr. Schuyler:
The Pulitzer prize editorials are always
preposterous—in
fact, I am toying with a scheme to print a collection of them as
a comic book. You will recall the one called "Who is
Coolidge?" I am still half convinced that the author wrote
it with his tongue in his cheek. I hope you lay on with proper
ferocity. I am convinced, as you are, that we are headed for a
dictatorship in this great Republic. Roosevelt is hot to horn
into the European the Europeans mess, and his wizards believe
that if he can scare the country sufficiently, it will be
possible to reëlect him next year. I am inclined to agree that
this is sound political dope.
I
have just read your violent assault on Conrad Bilbo. Admittedly,
he is a master ass; nevertheless, I suspect that there may be
some sense in his scheme. After all, the future of the Negro in
this country doesn't look any too hopeful. It might not be a bad
idea to try a return to Africa. it could not be attempted, of
course, on the heroic scale imagined by Comrade Bilbo, but
nevertheless it might be attempted. Once 10,000 smart American
gentlemen of color had got to Africa, the Liberian oligarchy
would begin to wither and fade away. I may do a piece on this
subject a bit later on. let us not underestimate Comrade Bilbo
because he is a notorious jackass. So was Martin Luther.
Another
matter: has anyone tried to interest Aframericans in dyes and
bleaches to change the color of their hair? They seem to spend
an enormous amount of money on hair-straighteners, but all such
great inventions leave their locks coal-black, with a patent
leather finish. the other day, I saw a colored girl in Baltimore
whose hair was definitely brown. Her complexion was much
darker, and the combination was really very striking. I
suspect that if some smart fellow began vending a dye to produce
yellow, red, and even green and purple, hair, he would earn an
honest fortune.
My
brother and I are still hoping to see you in Baltimore.
Sincerely
yours,
H.L.
Mencken
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To
Walter White
H.L. Mencken
1524 Hollins St.
Baltimore
December 6, 1943
Dear Walter:
I have read the manifesto of your committee
in an humble and prayerful spirit, but can only report that it
seems to me to be buncombe. If you wrote it, then you will have
a bad quarter of an hour when you face the port-mortem F.B.I. I
can see no evidence whatever that the English, if victorious in
the present war at American expense, will make any effort to
carry out the programme outlined in your Item 7, nor do I
believe that the pledges you ask for from candidates for office,
if you get them, will be worth anything. You already have
virtually all of them from Roosevelt, but how many are being
carried out?
All the frauds will promise you everything
you ask for, and all the honest men, if any, will be daunted by
the visible impossibility of doing anything effectual. Race
relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it
is when the boys come home that that Ku Klux Klans are
organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only
really feasible way to improve the general situation of the
American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is,
as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable
living with him is not only possible but desirable.
Every threat of mass political pressure,
every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white
brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice. The
immediate problem is not to get more and more gaudy jobs for
professional Negroes—including,
for example, that of admiral in the Navy—, nor is it to force
the doors of hotels, clubs and stores that only the rich could
patronize; it is not even to get useless (and probably venal)
votes for a horde of poor black ignoramuses in the South.
It
is to protect the Negro, if it can be done, against the
inevitable attempt of white competitors on the lower levels to
dispose of him by outrage and murder. Here in my own town of
Baltimore, where race relations have been peaceful for
generations and no Negro has been denied his vote in my time,
every thoughtful person, black or white, is made uneasy by the
possibilities ahead.
The
war industries have brought in huge gangs of barbaric white
crackers from the South and on their heels have come other gangs
of black refugees from Southern White Christianity. It is not
hard to figure out what will happen when the flood of government
money runs out, and these two gangs begin fighting for the
marginal jobs. . . .
[Incomplete]
[H.L.
Mencken]
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Lagniappe
To Blanche Knopf
H.L. Mencken
704 Cathedral St.
Baltimore
October 21st [1931]
Dear Blanche:-
I'll leave Monday evening open, and shall
count on you for lunch on Tuesday. Tuesday night I'll be stuck,
and on Wednesday I want to start home if possible, for my book
is much delayed, and I am hard at it.
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My prices on O'Neill:
For going to the
performance: $10,000
For seeing one act: $1750
For listening to the plot:
$3,500
For reading the reviews: $200 |
Yours,
M.
[Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill,
was then beginning its career in New York.]
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Letter from Dreiser to Mencken (excerpt)
March 27, 1943
As for Doctor, Professor Mencken—to
me, of course, he is sui generis. Never has there been in this
or any other country before, in so far as I know, one like him!
And, sadly, I fear, there will not soon be another. He seems to
me to lack faith in anything and everything save the futility of
everything—which is a Voltairean approach to all that is, and
that amuses me. But for all the bull-headed faults and ironic
conclusions of said Heinrich—I love and always will love
him—be the final estimate of said Dreiser or said Mencken what
it may.
Darling—don't
forget that I remember how, almost fatalistically you arrived in
my life when, from a literary point of view, I was down and out,
and you proceeded to fight for me. Night and day apparently.
Swack! Smack! Crack! Until finally you succeeded in chasing an
entire nation of literary flies to cover. It was lovely!. It was
classic. And whether you choose to slam me right or left, as is
your wont, in the future, Darling Professor, Doctor, I will love
you until the hour of my death. And don't pull any Edgar Allan
Poe stuff in connection with my forgotten grave either. Do you
hear me? or, I'll come back and fix you. And how!
Love
and kisses from
[Dreiser]
Sources:
Letters of H.L. Mencken. Selected and
Annotated by Guy J. Forgue, with a personal note by Hamilton Owens. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. * * * *
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George S. Schuyler, Writer. George
Schuyler, whose career has often inspired bitter controversy,
was born in providence, Rhode Island, in 1895. He is a
distinguished journalist whose work has appeared in The
Messenger, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Crisis,
The American Mercury, The World Tomorrow, New
Masses, Modern Quarterly, Opportunity, and The
Nation.
He is author of
Black No More
(1931), the
first science fiction novel written by an Afro-American, and
whose plot has been widely imitated. He is also the author of
Slaves
Today: A Story of Liberia (1931), and
Black and Conservative
(1966), his autobiography. Mr. Schuyler is presently the book
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"Mr. Schuyler discussed his stormy career and
other matters with Steve Cannon and me in October 1972 at his
handsomely furnished apartment on Convent Avenue in Manhattan,
full of sculpture, paintings, photos of his friends: authors,
artists, and Presidents, and memorabilia concerning his
hauntingly beautiful daughter, the late Philippa D. Schuyler.
During the course of the interview Mr. once required him to keep
a gun next to his typewriter when threatened by some political
opponents. When I asked Mr. Schuyler about the 1930s incident in
which he was picketed for his comments on Angelo Herndon, a
black Communist, he looked puzzled, trying to recall the case,
saying "I don't know. It's hard to remember. I've been picketed
by so many people."
Source: Ishmael
Reed,
Shrovetide in Old New Orleans. NY: Avon Books, 1979.
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Henry Louis "H. L."
Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an
American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist,
acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar
of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of
Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential
American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the
20th century. Many of his books are still in print.
Mencken is known for
writing
The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the
English language is spoken in the United States, and for his
satirical reporting on the
Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial. In
addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known
for his controversial ideas. During the World Wars, he was
sympathetic to the Germans, and was very distrustful of
British "propaganda.". A frank admirer of
Nietzsche, he was not a proponent of
representative democracy, which he believed was a system
in which inferior men dominated their superiors.
Mencken wrote many
articles about the social scene, literature, music,
prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, temperance and
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He was particularly
critical of
pomposity,
populism,
Comstockery,
Puritanism, and osteopathic and
chiropractic medicine. He was a keen cheer-leader of scientific
progress but very skeptical of economic theories.—Wikipedia
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L. Mencken Collection / H L Mencken on Negro Authors
Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S.
Schuyler / Robert A. Hill, ed.
Ethiopian Stories. Northeastern University Press, 1996
Jeffrey B. Leak
ed.
Rac(E)Ing to the Right: Selected Essays of
George S. Schuyler. University of
Tennessee Press, 2001
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
revelatory book, an open question. |
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Ratification
The People Debate the Constitution,
1787-1788
By Pauline Maier
A notable historian
of the early republic, Maier devoted a
decade to studying the immense
documentation of the ratification of the
Constitution. Scholars might approach
her book’s footnotes first, but history
fans who delve into her narrative will
meet delegates to the state conventions
whom most history books, absorbed with
the Founders, have relegated to
obscurity. Yet, prominent in their local
counties and towns, they influenced a
convention’s decision to accept or
reject the Constitution. Their
biographies and democratic credentials
emerge in Maier’s accounts of their
elections to a convention, the political
attitudes they carried to the conclave,
and their declamations from the floor.
The latter expressed opponents’
objections to provisions of the
Constitution, some of which seem
anachronistic (election regulation
raised hackles) and some of which are
thoroughly contemporary (the power to
tax individuals directly). Ripostes from
proponents, the Federalists, animate the
great detail Maier provides, as does her
recounting how one state convention’s
verdict affected another’s. Displaying
the grudging grassroots blessing the
Constitution originally received, Maier
eruditely yet accessibly revives a
neglected but critical passage in
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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