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General Grant / by Matthew Arnold ; with a rejoinder by Mark Twain ; edited and with an introduction by John Y. Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant.
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States. Army.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.
- Twain, Mark.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 58, pages ; 19cm
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- General Grant by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain presents conflicting essays and cultures. Matthew Arnold's 1886 essay on Grant praised the general and his posthumously published Memoirs, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country. Grant's friend and personal benefactor, Mark Twain, delivered a caustic rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut in April 1887. Thus Arnold became a pet prejudice of Twain's and may have served as an inspiration for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In this volume, Twain's rejoinder is published in a correct text for the first time since the Hartford Courant printed his speech.
- ISBN:
- 0873385241
- OCLC:
- 31243101
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