Mark Twain

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• Josh100/100

  At roughly 1,200 pages, Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain covers nearly every aspect of the humorist’s life in exhaustive detail. In this review, I’ll focus on a few of the central themes that run through Twain’s life and work: race, women, and business. On Race Sam Clemens was born in 1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. Slavery was legal in the territory, and his downwardly mobile…

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