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Twain first came to national attention in 1865, when he published a comical short story in dialect, which was eventually titled The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. ("You never see a frog so modest and straightfor'ard as he was, for all he was so gifted.") It appeared in newspapers all across the country, was received as a whole new kind of hilariousness and made him famous. "At the close of the Civil War, Americans were ready for a good cleansing laugh, untethered to bitter political argument," writes Twain's recent, so far definitive biographer, Ron Powers...
...everyone knows that Lyndon and Bobby have never had much use for each other. "The indifference of Robert F. Kennedy to Lyndon John son during his brother's Presidency had been embittering," writes White. "So, too, was Kennedy's abruptness of manner. Kennedy, a man as straightfor ward as Johnson is complicated, had not so much offended Johnson as ignored...
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