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Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...
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Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...
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The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...
Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.
Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect American life.
In commenting on this episode, William Dean Howells, his close friend, said that Mark Twain as a white man, held himself personally responsible for what the white race had done to the black race.