BOSTON, 1926
This Prologue sets the theme for the entire book: the issue of freedom. It presents a scene, captured during a pivotal moment in Mencken's career when, at the height of his popularity, he was arrested in Boston in 1926 or selling a copy of his censored magazine, The American Mercury.
Keywords: Harvard, The American Mercury, Comstock Society, censorship, liberty, Arthur Garfield Hays, Reverend Chase, Felix Frankfurter
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