The campus trials of Mencken's satire

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2013
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5 pages
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journal articles
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Towson University. Department of English
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Hahn, H. George. "The campus trials of Mencken's satire." Menckeniana, no. 203, 2013, pp. 11-14. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26487753.
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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 -- Study and teaching
Satire
Abstract
[From article]: “I think that people like to read abuse,” said Mencken to Donald Kirkley in a recorded interview of 1948. His charge prompts four trials about satire to a college-age class today.