Thursday, May 22, 2025

Ron Chernow - Mark Twain - Notes

 Here is the long awaited Chernow Twain biography weighing in at over 1,000 pages.

PRELUDE: THE PILOT HOUSE

A succinct summary of the life.

Growing up in Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River meant freedom, always an issue for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

P. 21  The coming of the steamboat north or south would wake up the sleepy town of Hannibal.  Steamboat arrival was exciting.


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