Mark Twain A Life by Ron Powers
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.
Powers, Ron: -
Ron Powers, an Emmy Award winner and the first television critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, has studied and written about Mark Twain for many years. He is the author of numerous books, including Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743248990 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743248996 |
| Title | Mark Twain A Life |
| Author | Ron Powers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Free Press |
| Year published | 2005-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 733 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 2005 |
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