With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy, by Florence King

Retrieved from: my library
(0312071248), 1992
Suggested by: my reviews list
My Ratings: 8 Merit, 6 Interest, 5 Fun

Florence is quite proud of the fact that she doesn't see what's wrong with the misanthropes of the world. She finds them perfectly rational and sensible. People annoy her--no, people never fail to live down to her expectations. She has, in this volume, combed literature and history for her compatriots, including Ambrose Bierce, Gustave Flaubert, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

She's funny, all-too-right about people wearing rose-colored glasses, and painful when she exposes one's own self in her scathing commentary.

On the other hand, she gives credit when due: her acknowledgments include a substantial list of people from her local "lah-berry," which she compares (favorably) to a "neighborhood speakeasy."