Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: “The Independent reports that one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published one hundred years after his death. Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century, but in November, the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain’s three-volume autobiography.
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There are a lot of writings about Twain’s political and social views. I read one that I found fascinating and still very applicable called, “Mark Twain On The Damned Human Race”. I would highly recommend it to any Twain fans that haven’t read it.
Great show guys!
-Jeremy