Notes on Democracy is a critique of democracy. The book places political leaders into two categories: the demagogue, who "preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots" and the demaslave, "who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself." Mencken depicts politicians as "men who have sold their honor for their jobs."
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Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Robert Moore Williams, Rufus King, H. L. Mencken, William J. Wintle, Tom Worth, W.C. Morrow, Lillian B. Hunt, Steve Fisher, Victor Rousseau, Gerald Vance, Emil Petaja, Thomas Burke, Robert Leslie Bellem, H.B. Hickey, George T. Wetzell, Charles V. De Vet, Theodore R. Cogswell
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Prejudices, First Series
H. L. Mencken
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The Philosophy of Nietzsche
H. L. Mencken
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A Book of Prefaces
H. L. Mencken
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The American Language: Development of English in the United States
H. L. Mencken
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The American Credo : A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan
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In Defense of Women
H. L. Mencken
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The American Language : An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
H. L. Mencken
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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
H. L. Mencken
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A Book of Prefaces
H. L. Mencken
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Prejudices: Essays
H. L. Mencken
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