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H.L. Mencken the Great

H.L. Mencken the Great
H.L. Mencken at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office, 1913. H.L. Mencken Collection/Enoch Pratt Free Library/Digital Maryland
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The way copyright law works, each year that goes by, ever more books of the past lose copyright protection and can be read and legally reprinted. As of this writing, anything printed before 1930 belongs to all, with no copyright enforcement.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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