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...park's previews, visitors gushed and oohed. Sporting beanies with mouse ears, they floated through Americana on a Mark Twain riverboat and Davy Crockett explorer canoes and railroaded through the Wild West on a train pulled by a steam locomotive. In a word, said one Japanese housewife, it was subarashii!-terrific...
...Biographer Edmund Morris made his way through research on Theodore Roosevelt. His contemporaries talked of T.R.'s "sweetness." Even Roosevelt's political opponent Woodrow Wilson was smitten. "There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling," he said. "You can't resist the man." Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan and even the peevish Henry Adams all were beguiled at one time or another, according to Morris...
...sang onshore at her arrival, but the visitor got on with business straightaway. She walked among 200 reporters (a fraction of those covering her) who had been invited aboard the comfortably staid Britannia to drink brandy and warm whisky. Mid-mingle, she had one American describe for her Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, in which a servant is cursed for manhandling the disguised English monarch...
Justin Kaplan, 57, one of the best working biographers, was unhappy when he tried his hand at fiction in his Harvard days. "It was not covert or impersonal enough," recalls the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. But Kaplan's sharply observed lives possess an imaginative drive found in the best tales. Says Kaplan: "It's like a Dickens novel. You get a feeling of the society around the life. And a good narrative...
...researching a biography of Charlie Chaplin, the author is usually found in the comfortable Cambridge, Mass., home he shares with his wife, Novelist Anne Bernays. His study is littered with dolls, posters and memorabilia of "the Little Tramp." Why a film figure? Like Twain and Whitman, he believes "Chaplin rightly thought he was creating a new kind of language." The new languages need an interpreter: "You hope to be on the inside of your subject, but also hold a distance from him," Kaplan says. But sometimes it does not work that way. "I once dreamed that Walt Whitman was pursuing...