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...Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS OF PYRE. So much for idylls...
Relatives of Mark Twain last week began giving the world a new, important and frequently unflattering load of Twainiana. The Atlantic Monthly published the first of four articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...
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