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1. Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer: the bold deconstruction of a national icon

Author

Gillespie, Nick

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Humanities, Philosophy and religion, Political science
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It's hard to read Ron Powers' engaging new Mark Twain: A Life (Free Press) and not conclude that there's a congenital defect in the very heart of American literature. Powers, [...]

Published
2006

2. BRIEFLY NOTED

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The City of Falling Angels (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, The City of Falling Angels (Book) -- Berendt, John, Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (Book) -- Kaplan, Robert D., The Pitcher Shower (Novel) -- Book reviews, The Pitcher Shower (Book) -- Harington, Donald, Books -- Book reviews, General interest, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary
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The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt (Penguin Press; $25.95). In his first book since the success of 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,' more than a [...]

Published
2005

3. Voice of America

Author

Wolff, Geoffrey

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
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MARK TWAIN A Life. By Ron Powers. Illustrated. 722 pp. The Free Press. $35. Toward the close of his wise and lively biography, Ron Powers brings the reader to Mark [...]

Published
2005

4. Mark Twain: A Life

Author

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
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Mark Twain: A Life. By Ron Powers. (New York and other cities: Free Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 722. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-7432-4901-1; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-4899-0; e-book, $9.99, ISBN [...]

Published
2007

5. An American in a hurry: Mark Twain was in permanent overdrive, always searching for his next big break. George Walden looks back on a restless genius whose life embodied that of the country he came from

Author

Walden, George

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing, Political science
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Mark Twain: a life Ron Powers Scribner, 715pp, £25 'We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials and saw, [...]

Published
2006

6. New books

Author

Leonard, John

Subjects
Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry (Book) -- Watkins, Mel, Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Party In the Blitz: The English Years (Book) -- Canetti, Elias, A Man Without A Country (Book) -- Vonnegut, Kurt, Books -- Book reviews, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
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'I used to be funny, Kurt Vonnegut informs us in A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (Seven Stories, $23.95), 'and perhaps I'm not anymore.' This last bit is untrue, of course. [...]

Published
2005

7. Pick six: What's new in non-fiction

Author

Minzesheimer, Bob

Subjects
The Lost Painting (Book) -- Harr, Jonathan, The Planets (Book) -- Sobel, Dava, Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Biography) -- Book reviews, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, The Lost Painting (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Book) -- Packer, George, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Book) -- Kearns, Doris, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Book) -- Winchester, Simon, The Planets (Novel) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, News, opinion and commentary
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Byline: Bob Minzesheimer Six of the biggest non-fiction books this fall tackle the Iraq war, search for a lost masterpiece, reassess the lives of Abe Lincoln and Mark Twain, and [...]

Published
2005

8. Twain, Mark: Mark Twain: A Life

Author

Benfy, Christopher

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
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Twain, Mark Mark Twain: A Life. Ron Powers. New York: Scribner, 2006. 723 pp. 25 £. 'To ... get a sharper sense of the man, Powers has turned to Twain's […]

Published
2006

9. Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life

Author

Nash, Charles C.

Subjects
Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Library and information science
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Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life. Free Pr: S. & S. Sept. 2005. c.736p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7432-4899-6. $35. LIT Unlike some earlier Twain biographies (Justin Kaplan's 1966 Mr. [...]

Published
2005

10. Mark Twain: A Life

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Mark Twain: A Life (Book) -- Powers, Ron, Mark Twain: A Life (Biography) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Advertising, marketing and public relations, Business, Publishing industry
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* Mark Twain: A Life RON POWERS. Free Press, $35 (736p) ISBN 0-7432-4899-6 After dozens of biographies of Twain (1835-1910), one can fairly ask, 'Why another?' But Powers, who wrote [...]

Published
2005

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