Ron Powers: "Mark Twain: A Life" (Free Press) (Rebroadcast)

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Ron Powers: "Mark Twain: A Life" (Free Press) (Rebroadcast)

Biographer Ron Powers presents what he calls "interpretive portraiture" of American humorist, essayist and novelist Mark Twain, and makes the case that Twain became the representative figure of his times.

Biographer Ron Powers presents what he calls "interpretive portraiture" of American humorist, essayist and novelist Mark Twain, and makes the case that Twain became the representative figure of his times.

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Ron Powers

author of "Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain"

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