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Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan's extraordinary biography which won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.

With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual…

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