The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

Type

Book

Authors

Fred Kaplan

ISBN 10

0385477155

ISBN 13

9780385477154

Tags

Authors, United States, Journalists

Description

The Singular Mark Twain presents the first fully integrated portrait of this great American icon. Fred Kaplan shows definitively that Twain's ferociously progressive ideas about race informed all his later works and absolve him from absurd charges of racism laid in recent years. Kaplan also details the darker side of Twain's story - the illnesses and death that plagued his family and darkened his vision, his almost comically terrible business sense that lost him his great fortune, and his paranoid sensitivity to slights and betrayals.

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