“Mencken didn’t return the compliment. He had not forgotten the jailing of conscientious objectors or the arrest of German Americans before and during the war, or after it, the “Red Scare,” the deportations and harassments, all of which he associated with prohibitionists, fanatics, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Ku Kluxers—and William Jennings Bryan.”
― Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
― Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
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