Mark Twain: The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer (Library of American Biography)

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 7503 KB
Publisher: MobileReference (September 27, 2007)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
Language: English
ASIN: B004L9KM4U
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The life and writings of a beloved American writer illuminate the Gilded Age and reveal his ambivalence toward the changes wrought by industry and wealth.Like the steamboat on which Mark Twain adopted his pen name, the industrial growth that swept America in the latter half of the nineteenth century prompted Americans to react variously with delight, awe, fear, excitement for the future, and nostalgia for a simpler time. David Levy's biography places Mark Twain and his work in the context of sweeping societal changes: westward expansion, the Civil War, American imperialism, the end of slavery and start of a new chapter in race relations,  and the advances and excesses of the Gilded Age. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. Mark Twain: The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer (Library of American Biography)