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"These Wall Street money-sharks are just as foreign to the real America as were the despots who ruled the land before the revolution of 1776. They are just as foreign as were the traffickers in human flesh and blood—the slave owners—whose power was broken by the Civil War—the blessed second American revolution. These imperialist rulers of America are the worst enemies of the American people.“American democracy, under their rule, is slipping away. The fear that oppressed Mark Twain, the fear that America would lose its democracy, is steadily becoming a reality. The Taft-Hartley Law is but the most recent instance of this ominous trend. The divine right of kings has reappeared in America—disguised as the divine right of judges to issue injunctions and levy fines against labor organizations.â€â€”James P. Cannon, “The Two Americas,†1948, in ‘Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight against the Korean War and McCarthyism (paperback)I have used a quote by Cannon, a founder of the American Communist Party, and later Trotsky’s closest collaborator in the US, not only because he’s one of my heroes, but also to be somewhat ornery, since Ron Powers misquotes Trotsky (not that it’s essential to his book). Powers writes: “’You may not be interested in war,’ as Leon Trotsky later famously remarked, ‘but war is interested in you.’†This “famous quotation†is similar to a remark that Trotsky made about dialectics in ‘In Defense of Marxism,’ in my opinion one of his most important books, but not one that I would recommend for people who don’t already know much about Marxism. (People interested in literature would likely be interested in a wonderful collection of Trotsky’s writings on it; Art and Revolution: Writings on Literature, Politics, and Culture).A few years ago, I interrupted my usual nonfiction reading to reread the ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ or perhaps I was really reading it for the first time, since as a kid I had a boxed set with it and Tom Sawyer, and for all I remember it might have been edited for children. Some think it the greatest American novel, and some think it should be banned because of all the use of the “N word.†I’m against banning books, or censoring them, and the copy I borrowed from the library was intended for high school students and had a good introduction that I thought dealt with that question well, in historical perspective, which is essential for anything to make sense. But we live in a country where “political correctness†has gone mad, with accusations of “cultural appropriation,†as if all culture, especially art doesn’t involve appropriation. Long Live Huck!Twain was more than just a writer and lecturer; he was a personality. He knew everyone who was anyone but wrote mostly about people who weren’t. He made American vernacular acceptable, even encouraged it, and he made everyone laugh as a writer and performer.Twain’s life spanned a period of enormous political and economic change, from slavery through the Civil War, Radical Reconstruction and its downfall, and the development of monopoly capitalism, also known as imperialism. He died between the 1905 “dress rehearsal†of, and the victorious 1917 Russian Revolution. He tended to side with the oppressed, although not consistently. Twain had the right intentions in most of his political pronouncements, but he thought the US was fighting Spain in order to free Cuba. They grabbed the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, as well as control over Cuba in the process. Puerto Rico is still a colony, and the US still illegally occupies part of Cuba, where in order to show their superior “human rights†record, they tortured alleged terrorists. And to punish Cuba for finally breaking free of US imposed governments, the US is still trying to starve them out.Twain did see his error and stated, “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.†He joined the bourgeois Anti-Imperialist League, but as Lenin was to show (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline), imperialism was a stage of capitalism, still the present stage, not a mere policy.Twain’s essay written against anti-Semitism showed he didn’t understand what it is; but a lot of people still don’t get it, 70 years after the Holocaust!Controversial political essays--anti-imperialist, antiwar, and antiracist--made up much of his writings in his last years, but many magazines refused them; some weren’t published until many years after his death. Many of his writings on religion he made no attempt to publish.He had friends in the capitalist class, and for much of his life was trying to get rich. Like his hero and friend U.S. Grant, he was a lousy businessman and would have had more money if he hadn’t tried to be one. He was taken in by swindlers, and by people who just couldn’t deliver what they promised.Most of the time, I couldn’t put this book down, but on occasion it got a bit boring and I couldn’t wait to put it down. Still, I highly recommend it; you just might want to turn to a second book on occasion.I recently read Ron Chernow’s Grant, another book that is useful for understanding this period. I also recommend some Marxist works: Americas Revolutionary Heritage and Racism, Revolution, Reaction, 1861-1877: The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (despite the unkind judgement on Thomas Wentworth Higginson, based on one letter he wrote in old age). And for a view of what the American working class was becoming in the period following the Second American Revolution, I suggest The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 and Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs.Readers of this book may also be interested in Revolution and the 20th Century Novel.(The Kindle edition is somewhat worse than usual, a lot of hyphens showing up that should have been discretionary hyphens to help breaking words in formatted text).
Mark Twain had an incredible memory for dialogue and dialects. He would say an unfamiliar dialect until he got it right and then write it down phonetically. He would then have the appropriate characters use that dialect as the author’s voice for making points that brought to light the reality of situations to which most people were blind. As Powers indicates, this changed American literature forever. It gave the potential author points of view by which to look at human life that the “normal†perspective could not understand and opened up worlds that were unknown or not considered important before Twain. Combined with a brilliant ability to write dialogue, Twain showed truths about human life that changed everything in American literature.But this ability of a true genius was embedded in a deeply flawed and ambiguous person, a person who only partially overcame some deep prejudices, often showed uncaring irrational cruelty to friends and family, and frequently acted in self-centered and narcissistic ways. Powers does an excellent job of showing both the genius and the flaws. Powers’ own writing is clear with smooth transitions and well-organized chapters and paragraphs. Though a long book, it is easy to follow with chapter titles followed by the months or years covered in the chapter. Multiple double-spaced breaks in each chapter allow the reader to stop at a break point and come back with no problem. Powers adds periodically a touch of humor in the story analogous to what Twain would have done. It is usually a sentence or a phrase, sometimes just a word. For example, he has Twain “absquatulate†to the West before his ragtag group of Confederate volunteers at the beginning of the war could be attacked by, of all people, a fairly ragtag team of Union soldiers led by a new leader, Ulysses S. Grant. “Absquatulate†is exactly the kind of 25 cent word, a bit strange sounding, that Twain would insert into his work at times. I found such bits of irony or mimicry of Twain appropriate and a helpful addition to the flow of the narrative.Powers lays out the best and worst of this American original. This is a terrific biography that keeps the reader’s attention from Sam Clemons’ birth to Mark Twain’s death.
Loved this book, after visiting his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri. Twain was a complicated man, with some negative characteristics that dwarf his positives. Those who don't like this biography are probably folks who idealize Clemens based on his literature. His relationship to his family and children; his lack of discipline when it came to investments; the hard side of his personality toward other celebrities who he felt challenged his primacy in the last half of the 19th century: these are all instructive facets of a very complicated man. Powers paints Clemens warts and all.My favorite genre is biography, especially biographies that place the reader into the context of the times. Powers achieves that. It is hard to imagine a better-researched biography than this one. His use of primary sources is great. He quotes from those sufficiently, without doing too much.
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