[Rarebooks] FS: H. L. Mencken THE AMERICAN CREDO with a Letter from Mencken

[Charles Agvent]

MENCKEN, H. L. and NATHAN, George Jean. THE AMERICAN CREDO. A 
CONTRIBUTION TOWARD THE INTERPRETATION OF THE NATIONAL MIND with a TYPED 
LETTER SIGNED (TLs) by Mencken. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. Second 
Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Lightly tipped to the front endpaper is a 
Typed Letter SIGNED by Mencken on AMERICAN MERCURY stationery to a Mr. 
Ackermann, most certainly Carl William Ackerman, American journalist, 
author, and educational administrator, the first dean of the Columbia 
School of Journalism. In full: "I am delighted to hear that you find the 
American Credo interesting. I am well acquainted with your own book and 
value it highly. The American Credo, of course, had no scientific 
purpose. Mr. Nathan and I put it together as sort of a lark. Its success 
greatly astounded us. Contributions began pouring in from all parts of 
the world, and we might have extended the second edition to a thousand 
pages." With extensive pencil underlining and occasional notes by, we 
suspect, Ackerman. Part of the dustwrapper tipped in before the 
half-title page. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

The book Mencken is likely referring to is GERMANY THE NEXT REPUBLIC? 
(1917), which discussed the possibility of a successful democracy in 
post-Kaiser Germany. Ackerman also published articles headlined as "The 
Red Bible," featuring the first English edition of THE PROTOCOLS OF THE 
ELDERS OF ZION, an anti-Semitic hoax that had been published in Europe 
and recounted a Jewish plan for world domination. By replacing all the 
references to Jews with references to Bolshevists, he turned it into an 
anti-Bolshevist hoax. (#018927)        $250.00

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