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...Mark Twain once took the trouble to dig out and proclaim at length (in Life on the Mississippi) some comparative figures on America's age. Without whooping it up as Mark did, Historians Commager & Nevins are equally concerned to demonstrate the long, rich past which Americans seldom realize. Collected in this book are about 1,130 pages of documents, from the Journal of Christopher Columbus to Charles Lindbergh's We, which make up a history told by the historical. Samples...
Once when Mark Twain wanted to express the quintessence of complacency, he reached down into his grabbag of artful characterizations and pulled out one of his greatest: "The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." Japanese statesmen wore just such a cocksure air last week. Their spiritual complacency (the sacred mission of creating a New Order) was reinforced with all the aces and most of the face cards in the Asiatic pack...
...from his interest in people, their customs and living conditions. In no slumming or night-out spirit did he shepherd his fellows to Harlem. He says of U. S. folk music: "It's the best thing we have. It's as American as chewing gum and Mark Twain, good and tawdry and proud...
Though few remember it, Beard was famed in the '80s and '90s as an illustrator. His masterpiece was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Said Mark Twain: "It was a lucky day I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor.") His drawings of monks swigging ale got him boycotted for nearly ten years by most big magazines. Another time he was made to put shoes on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, prohibited from drawing cows with udders...