You’re welcome! Mencken is a favorite of mine.
When we visited her parents, I would sleep on the pull out sofa bed in her Dad's little home office.
Just above my pillow was a shelf with a huge multi-volume collection of Mencken's collected papers and published writing.
I probably read 500 hundred pages of Mencken in those years - but not another word in the half century since then.
I admired Mencken's writing skills, but I never completely understood his political orientation, or even if he had an orientation.
He was probably America's greatest political humorist, but, looking back, I always felt his work lacked the ideological “punch” of writers like Mark Steyn, Pat Buchanan, and William F. Buckley.