Treatise on the Gods

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announcesThe Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics:Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices,Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work,Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken’s scathing commentary on religion.