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In Mark Twain, Ron Powers consummates years of research with a tour de force on the life of our culture's founding father. Drawing on thousands of letters and notebook entries, many only recently discovered, he offers Sam Clemens as he lived, breathed, and wrote. From his frontier boyhood in Missouri, life on the Mississippi and the western theater of the Civil War, to an uproarious newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West. His fame as a humorist and lecturer spread around the country and his comments on everything he saw, many published here for the first time, are priceless. |
