Mark Twain’s Many Contradictions

Mark Twain’s Many Contradictions

Overall, Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is less a literary biography than a deep dive into “the most original character in American history.” – Washington Post

Donald Trump, Mark Twain, and another Gilded Age

I’ve begun to regard Mark Twain as a fellow San Franciscan who anticipated our era’s Gilded Age long ago. He arrived in the city by stagecoach, and praised life here in Roughing It by noting: “After the sage-brush and alkali deserts of Washoe [Nevada], San Francisco was Paradise to me.” He spent time in other parts of California, too, but Twain wrote about theatre and politics for the San Francisco Dramatic Chroniclefrom 1865-66. (That San Franc…