Inventing Mark Twain.

The Economist (US) | March 15, 1997 | Copyright

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY. By Shelley Fisher Fishkin. OUP; 264 pages; $25.

INVENTING MARK TWAIN. By Andrew Hoffman. Morrow; 608 pages; $30. Weidenfeld and Nicolson; K25

BACK and forth and up and down America they go, that great army of Twainiacs. Who are these people anyway? They are marauding bands of idolator-critics whose tenured destiny it is to find out everything that there is to be known about Mark Twain, arguably America's most marketable cultural asset. And, having found it out, they publish-in order to correct the mistakes or the misjudgments of ...

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