I Walked The Streets Of New York

There's No Good Guys And Bad Guys.

[mark] Twain Is Pointing At You. You, The Reader Of The Book One Hundred And Thirty Years Ago And Today. That Is What Has Made It A Great American Novel And The Most Widely Read Book In American Literature Around The World Today.

[mark] Twain Was A Publisher. He Published General Grant's Memoirs (a Big Success) And Had A Hand In The Publishing Of Many Of His Own Books. He Would, I Think, Be Very Keen About The Question Of How A Book Would Sell.

We Live In A Democracy. We Have This Extraordinary Opportunity To Use Our Mind And Say What We Think, Speak As We Think. Sometimes What We Say Is Objectionable To Other People. But That Is Part Of A Free Society

If We Want To Understand The Actions Of A Man In The Early 1860's, Put Yourself Back There In His Shoes. As A Young Man He Began Piloting Steamboats On The Mississippi, A Job He Loved And Wanted To Do The Rest Of His Life, He Said. The Civil War Ended Traffic On The River And His Job. He Wrote About It In A History Of A Campaign That Failed. He Said: "i Joined The Confederacy, Served For Two Weeks, Deserted, And The Confederacy Fell." His Attachment To The Southern Ideal Of Slavery Does Not Appear Very Sturdy.