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Mark Twain and the Colonel: The Arrival of a New Century Through the Eyes of Samuel L. Clemens ...

ISBN: 9781442212268 | 1442212268

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Natl Book Network
Pub. Date: 8/16/2012

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Summary Table of Contents

Mark Twain and the Colonel tells the story of two dominant figures in American culture and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt were often in New York City during this time period and their paths crossed often. In their many appearances before the public, neither was heard to speak ill of the other. But in private they unburdened their minds more candidly, Roosevelt on one occasion volunteering that he would like to skin Mark Twain alive, and Twain saying that he thought Roosevelt to be "far and away ... MOREthe worst President we have ever had." Philip McFarland tells the story of the rich years of American history between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of two of its most vital participants. The story begins in 1900, with a welcome on the New York piers extended to one of the nation's best loved figures as he returns from nearly a decade of self-imposed exile. The narrative then unfolds in six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the United States of the early twentieth century that continues to matter to this day: America as an imperialist nation, America as a continental nation, America as a racial nation, America as a corporate nation, America at home, and America striving for peace. The story nears its end ten years later, in 1910, with that same figure returning once more to Manhattan, beshawled, seated on a deckchair, derby on his head, carried down the gangway while reporters wait on the pier yet again to welcome him home a final time. In this short span of years, the America of the late nineteenth century will move substantially closer to the America we know today, thanks in part to the influence and actions of Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt, two of the most influential figures of the age.

In Mark Twain and the Colonel, Philip McFarland tells the story of the rich years of American history between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of two of its most vital participants. The narrative unfolds in six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the United States of the early twentieth century that continues to matter to this day: America as an imperialist nation, America as a continental nation, America as a racial nation, America as a corporate nation, America at home, and America striving for peace. In this short span of years, the America of the late nineteenth century will move substantially closer to the America we know today, thanks in part to the influence and actions of Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt, two of the most influential figures of the age.

List of Illustration	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
War
Return to America	p. 3
Celebrity	p. 11
Vice Presidential Candidate	p. 19
Warfare	p. 28
Imperialist America	p. 39
Anti-Imperialist	p. 47
Election Results	p. 55
The Strenuous Life	p. 63
West
... MORERural Upbringing	p. 75
Urban Upbringing	p. 83
Clemens Goes West	p. 90
Grand Tours	p. 99
Western Writings	p. 108
Continental America	p. 119
The Philippines	p. 128
Pan-American Exposition	p. 136
Race
Yale Bicentennial	p. 147
Racial America	p. 155
Back to Hannibal	p. 164
Roosevelt and Race	p. 172
Livy	p. 180
Huckleberry Finn	p. 189
Roosevelt and the Philippines	p. 197
Placating the South	p. 205
Oil
The Kanawha	p. 217
Corporate America	p. 226
Roosevelt as Reformer	p. 234
The Gilded Age	p. 243
Bankruptcy	p. 252
In the White House	p. 261
Trustbusting	p. 269
Our Life Is Wrecked	p. 278
Children
A Seventieth Birthday	p. 289
Susy	p. 299
America at Home	p. 308
Bully Father	p. 316
President in His Own Right	p. 324
Global Visions	p. 332
Bereft and Adrift	p. 340
Young People	p. 348
Peace
Carnegie	p. 359
America at Peace	p. 368
Late Pleasures	p. 376
TR Steps Down	p. 384
Jean	p. 393
Funerals	p. 403
Bull Moose	p. 411
Afterward	p. 420
Chronology	p. 429
Notes	p. 439
Works Cited	p. 469
Index	p. 477
About the Author	p. 499
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