Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074327475X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Book Synopsis Mark Twain by : Ron Powers
Download or read book Mark Twain written by Ron Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.